Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

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Post by jmg » Fri, Nov 26, 2010, 12:51 AM UTC

Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria
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Re: Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

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Post by dfranke » Fri, Nov 26, 2010, 1:26 AM UTC

I don't know enough about biology to comment on their storage-density claims, but as to the encryption, I'm getting a strong whiff of snake oil from "only the client would know the function to derive the checksum". If you want to convince me that bioinformatics has something to offer cryptology, then you need to explain to me what property wetware has that silicon doesn't which causes it to be unlike a classical Turing machine.

Re: Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

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Post by dawgyDoo » Fri, Nov 26, 2010, 1:32 AM UTC

My anti-virus software just deleted all my data!

Re: Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

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Post by sukuriant » Fri, Nov 26, 2010, 1:43 AM UTC

dawgyDoo wrote: post #3

My anti-virus software just deleted all my data!

You mean your antibacterial salve did!

Don't let people with a bandaid on their hand work on your computer, they might just have Neosporin in there!

Re: Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

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Post by clistctrl » Fri, Nov 26, 2010, 2:08 AM UTC

hopefully no one leaves a cheese laying around to infect the hard drives!

Re: Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

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Post by nickpinkston » Fri, Nov 26, 2010, 2:17 AM UTC

Also interesting: they contributed their technique to the BioBricks Foundation: http://bbf.openwetware.org

Very exciting things coming as we get the protein expression laws down well. I can't wait to use http://mrgene.com to sequence DNA and a BioBrick Assembly kit to put it all together.

http://www.neb.com/nebecomm/products/productE0546.asp

Re: Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

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Post by greenlblue » Fri, Nov 26, 2010, 2:35 AM UTC

Don't bacteria die, reproduce, and mutate? How is it possible to store anything long term in room temperature conditions?

Re: Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

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Post by siculars » Fri, Nov 26, 2010, 2:42 AM UTC

greenlblue wrote: post #7

Don't bacteria die, reproduce, and mutate? How is it possible to store anything long term in room temperature conditions?

Everything degrades but I am particularly concerned re. the rate of decay of anything organic. What's the MTBF?

Re: Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

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Post by rodericksilva » Fri, Nov 26, 2010, 2:52 AM UTC

So, sick people will have more storage space?

Re: Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

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Post by agoyal » Fri, Nov 26, 2010, 2:53 AM UTC

Wonder if they can replicate data with binary fission (barring mutation.)