{"id":186001,"date":"2024-03-25T21:39:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T02:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/translation-software-enables-efficient-dna-data-storage"},"modified":"2024-03-25T21:39:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T02:39:27","slug":"translation-software-enables-efficient-dna-data-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/translation-software-enables-efficient-dna-data-storage","title":{"rendered":"Translation software enables efficient DNA data storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/translation-software-enables-efficient-dna-data-storage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In support of a major collaborative project to store massive amounts of data in DNA molecules, a Los Alamos National Laboratory\u2013led team has developed a key enabling technology that translates digital binary files into the four-letter genetic alphabet needed for molecular storage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur software, the Adaptive DNA Storage Codec (ADS Codex), translates data files from what a computer understands into what biology understands,\u201d said Latchesar Ionkov, a computer scientist at Los Alamos and principal investigator on the project. \u201cIt\u2019s like translating from English to Chinese, only harder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DNA offers a compact way to store huge amounts of data cost-effectively. Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed ADS Codex to translate the 0s and 1s of digital computer files into the four-letter code of DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In support of a major collaborative project to store massive amounts of data in DNA molecules, a Los Alamos National Laboratory\u2013led team has developed a key enabling technology that translates digital binary files into the four-letter genetic alphabet needed for molecular storage. \u201cOur software, the Adaptive DNA Storage Codec (ADS Codex), translates data files from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186001","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\/186001","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}