Unbelievably 9,00,000 GB of Data in single gram of E-coli Bacteria.

From the first Paper Tape which was used to store data on computer,
scientists have evolved a numerous method to make data storage more
efficient and fast.

The future seems to have certain bacteria inside cpu's to replace our
harddisk drive to store binary data with greater data compaction.

The enthusiastic scientists of china from chinese university of
hongkong (CUHK) are trying to use living cells of certain bacterias to
construct more productive and eco friendly data storage devices.

These CUHK is formed by a group of undergraduates and instructors from
the chinese university of hongkong.

The whole steps can be summarised as encoding data on the DNA's of the
bacteria and security is proved by encrypting through bringing in
control enviroment of site specific genetic recombination.
we can also call it as a 'bioencryption by recombination'. Encoding is
done using dna bases like adenosine,thymine,cytosine and guanine to
represent digits 0,1,2 and 3.

If successfull implemented these can be a brand new biological
cryptography system.

The idea is simple.harnessing the incredible adaptability of simple
organisms in the tortured enviroment to make sure that the message
stored can be left undisturbed regardless of any enviromental
changes.

The major advantage can be to make data extremely resistant to hacking
and enviromental damage,of which almost all current solutions are
affected by.

Also these will improve data compaction efficiency ..

Till now scientisits have sucessfully squeezed more than 9,31,322 GB
of data on a single gram of e-coli bacteria through developing
massively parallel bacterial data storage system.

Compared to 1 to 4 GB per gram data density of todays conventional
storage systems,9,00,000 gb per gram is an out-standing work.

Taking this dream more close to commercial reality ,has developed
read/correction and random access modules , in addition to a
encryption modules,all using site specific recombination of the
inversion type.

Days are not far when we might have these bacterias as our usb storage
to replace pendrives ,flash cards etc....

However to retrieve encoded data back is still expensive,which
requires a sequencer to decode.

Lets see what they have for us in future...

"a strong and secure biological data storage system or just as all
other an unending dream....."
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JITENDRA KUMAR PATEL.
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