{"id":102258,"date":"2020-02-12T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T01:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/tabletop-storage-georgia-tech-looks-to-smash-an-exabyte-into-dna-sugar-cube"},"modified":"2020-02-12T17:23:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T01:23:26","slug":"tabletop-storage-georgia-tech-looks-to-smash-an-exabyte-into-dna-sugar-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/tabletop-storage-georgia-tech-looks-to-smash-an-exabyte-into-dna-sugar-cube","title":{"rendered":"Tabletop storage: Georgia Tech looks to SMASH an exabyte into DNA \u2018sugar cube\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tabletop-storage-georgia-tech-looks-to-smash-an-exabyte-into-dna-sugar-cube2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is looking into ways to speed up DNA-based cold storage in a $25m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/25-million-project-will-advance-dna-based-archival-data-storage\">Scalable Molecular Archival Software and Hardware (SMASH) project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DNA is a biopolymer molecule composed from two chains in a double helix formation, and carrying genetic information. The chains are made up from nucleotides containing one of four nucleobases; cytosine \u00a9, guanine (G), adenine (A) and thymine (T). Both chains carry the same data, which is encoded into sequences of the four nucleobases.<\/p>\n<p>GTRI senior research scientist Nicholas Guise said in a quote that DNA storage is \u201cso compact that a practical DNA archive could store an exabyte of data, equivalent to a million terabyte hard drives, in a volume about the size of a sugar cube.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is looking into ways to speed up DNA-based cold storage in a $25m Scalable Molecular Archival Software and Hardware (SMASH) project. DNA is a biopolymer molecule composed from two chains in a double helix formation, and carrying genetic information. The chains are made up from nucleotides containing one of four [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}