{"id":76113,"date":"2018-02-21T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T20:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/dna-data-storage-system-is-on-the-rise-find-out-how-to-store-yours"},"modified":"2018-02-25T11:12:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:12:29","slug":"dna-data-storage-system-is-on-the-rise-find-out-how-to-store-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/dna-data-storage-system-is-on-the-rise-find-out-how-to-store-yours","title":{"rendered":"DNA data storage system is on the rise \u2014 find out how to store yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qloX87Apz2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the University of Washington and Microsoft are improving their system for preserving digital data in strands of synthetic DNA \u2014 and they\u2019re giving you the chance to participate.<\/p>\n<p>The UW-Microsoft team laid out the method in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nbt.4079\">research paper published this week in Nature Biotechnology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the experiment described in the paper, text files as well audio, images and a high-definition music video featuring the band OK Go were first digitally encoded, and then converted into chemical coding \u2014 that is, adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine, which make up the ATCG alphabet for DNA base pairs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2018\/dna-data-storage-system-rises-past-400-megabytes-find-store\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true\">https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2018\/dna-data-storage-system-rises-...ssion=true<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the University of Washington and Microsoft are improving their system for preserving digital data in strands of synthetic DNA \u2014 and they\u2019re giving you the chance to participate. The UW-Microsoft team laid out the method in a research paper published this week in Nature Biotechnology. For the experiment described in the paper, text [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76113","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76191,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76113\/revisions\/76191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}