{"id":97082,"date":"2019-10-05T22:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T05:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/how-will-we-store-three-septillion-bits-of-data-your-metabolome-may-have-the-answer"},"modified":"2019-10-05T22:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T05:22:26","slug":"how-will-we-store-three-septillion-bits-of-data-your-metabolome-may-have-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/how-will-we-store-three-septillion-bits-of-data-your-metabolome-may-have-the-answer","title":{"rendered":"How Will We Store Three Septillion Bits of Data? Your Metabolome May Have the Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-will-we-store-three-septillion-bits-of-data-your-metabolome-may-have-the-answer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/tag\/big-data\/\">big data<\/a>\u201d revolution to continue, we need to radically rethink our hard drives. Thanks to evolution, we already have a clue.<\/p>\n<p>Our bodies are jam-packed with data, tightly compacted inside microscopic structures within every cell. Take DNA: with just four letters we\u2019re able to generate every single molecular process that keeps us running. That sort of combinatorial complexity is still unheard of in silicon-based data storage in computer chips.<\/p>\n<p>Add this to the fact that DNA can be dehydrated and kept intact for eons\u2014500,000 years and counting\u2014and it\u2019s no surprise that scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/dna-data-storage-is-closer-than-you-think\/\">have been exploiting its properties<\/a> to encode information. To famed synthetic biologist Dr. George Church, looking to biology is a no-brainer: even the simple bacteria E. Coli has a data storage density of 10<sup>19<\/sup> bits per cubic centimeter. Translation? Just a single cube of DNA measuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/dna-data-storage-is-closer-than-you-think\/\">one meter each side<\/a> can meet all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/04\/26\/the-answer-to-the-digital-data-tsunami-is-literally-in-our-dna\/\">world\u2019s current data storage needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the \u201cbig data\u201d revolution to continue, we need to radically rethink our hard drives. Thanks to evolution, we already have a clue. Our bodies are jam-packed with data, tightly compacted inside microscopic structures within every cell. Take DNA: with just four letters we\u2019re able to generate every single molecular process that keeps us running. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,41,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-information-science","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97082","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}