Preserving our Digital Legacy: An Introduction to DNA Data Storage
Our first whitepaper will give you a good overview of DNA Data Storage technology and the need for a new archival storage medium that will help with the explosive growth of digital data.
The Cinémathèque suisse is the national film archive in Switzerland. Its collections, including over 90’000 titles, expand over various film, video and digital carriers. In charge of the preservation of national film heritage in the country, the Cinémathèque’s collections are enriched day by day, most importantly with digital additions since the early 2010s. In an effort to improve our digital preservation practices, we are always on the lookout for new technologies, such as DNA archiving, that will make the motion pictures last longer, and that, in a more sustainable way.
Seagate is crafting the datasphere with groundbreaking technology.
Seagate was founded on the belief that data is potential. Our goal is to help humanity maximize that potential by harnessing the datasphere, which is all around us.
Quantum technology and services help customers capture, create and share digital content – and preserve and protect it for decades. With solutions built for every stage of the data lifecycle, Quantum’s platforms provide the fastest performance for high-resolution video, images, and industrial IoT. That’s why the world’s leading entertainment companies, sports franchises, researchers, government agencies, enterprises, and cloud providers are making the world happier, safer, and smarter on Quantum. See how at www.quantum.com.
Our most visible and recognizable symbol, the Quantum logo is the primary identification of our company and products. Our logo serves as the cornerstone of every visual communication we produce.
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s mission is to develop and apply science and technology to ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent; reduce global threats; and solve other emerging national security and energy challenges.
The Digital Preservation Coalition exists to secure our digital legacy.
We enable our members to deliver resilient long-term access to digital content and services, helping them to derive enduring value from digital assets and raising awareness of the strategic, cultural and technological challenges they face. We achieve our aims through advocacy, community engagement, workforce development, capacity-building, good practice and good governance.
The Molecular Information Systems Lab (MISL) at the University of Washington explores the intersection of information technology and molecular-level manipulation using in-silico and wet lab experiments.
At the University of Arizona’s Center for Applied Nanobioscience and Medicine, faculty, staff and students are creating new technologies and collaborating in bold, innovative ways to push boundaries in science and engineering to explore new translational possibilities to improve human health. Our team foster the potential of NanoBioScience in breakthrough applications through the integration of interdisciplinary research developments in biologics and technological devices.
Spectra Logic develops data storage and data management solutions that solve the problem of long-term digital preservation for organizations dealing with exponential data growth. Spectra enables affordable, multi-decade data storage and access by creating new methods of managing information in all forms – including backup, archive, cold storage, private cloud and public cloud.
SRC is the world’s leading non-profit industry-government-academia microelectronics research consortium funding academic research tasks selected and directed by industry and government members. We’re made up of over 20 premier semiconductor industry companies, three government agencies, and over 100 universities. The research performed through SRC accelerates growth of new markets and new product technologies by pooling industry and government funds to create much larger and more effective research programs than could be done alone.
QS-2 is a scientific and technical consulting and analytics company that provides creative solutions to help today’s organizations solve tomorrow’s most important problems by leveraging deep subject matter expertise to translate cutting-edge research into real-world solutions. For additional information about the company, please visit www.QS-2.com.
PFU provides flagship document scanners that hold the top number of shares in the world. We will continue to contribute to emerging technology that will preserve data in the future, aiming to provide total ICT solutions in digitalization with trust.
Molecular Assemblies, Inc. is a private biotech company developing an enzymatic DNA synthesis technology designed to power the next generation of DNA-based products. The company’s patented enzymatic method, based on making DNA the way nature makes DNA, produces long, high quality, sequence-specific DNA reliably, affordably, and sustainably. Molecular Assemblies’ technology will enable the reading and writing of DNA for industries including industrial synthetic biology and precision medicine, as well as emerging applications of DNA for data information storage, nanomachines, and bio-based electronics.
Kioxia is a world leader in memory solutions, dedicated to the development, production and sale of flash memory and solid state drives (SSDs). In April 2017, its predecessor Toshiba Memory was spun off from Toshiba Corporation, the company that invented NAND flash memory in 1987. Kioxia is committed to uplifting the world with memory by offering products, services and systems that create choice for customers and memory-based value for society. Kioxia’s innovative 3D flash memory technology, BiCS FLASH™, is shaping the future of storage in high-density applications, including advanced smartphones, PCs, SSDs, automotive and data centers.
Iridia is a private, venture-backed US company developing an ultra-high-density data storage solution by integrating DNA biotechnology and semiconductor chip technology. Iridia has developed a proprietary enzyme-based biochemistry that has the potential to write digital data in synthetic DNA within a highly parallel microchip array. This microchip array is also capable of storing and reading the digital information written within it. Iridia’s technology offers the promise for dramatic reductions in both data storage costs and physical footprint, significant increases in length of time data can be stored and substantial reductions in operating energy requirements for data centers.
IMEC is a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in semiconductor technology combined with profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class 200 mm and 300 mm silicon chip pilot line infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities, manufacturing, energy and education. For the purpose of making DNA synthesis and DNA read out, IMEC partners with the industry not only for R&D on chip level concepts, but also for development and chip manufacturing in the 200 mm and 300 mm silicon CMOS pilot line. Moreover, characterization at nanoscale and at bioscale is possible in our Life Lab infrastructure of > 240 square meter where electrical, optical, material and biochemistry come together.
Imagene offers a disruptive technology for room temperature preservation of DNA stored inside hermetic metallic capsules maintaining anhydrous and anoxic conditions. This innovation, through a HT platform, makes possible the secure standalone archiving of large amounts of digital data over millennia.
The research conducted at Université Côte d’Azur aims to address major challenges in science and society. It covers a broad continuum of objectives, approaches and methodologies, from basic theoretical science to targeted research galvanized by the momentum provided by Idex UCAJEDI and the 3IA.
The I3S laboratory is the largest information and communication science laboratory in the French Riviera.
Freedom and individual responsibility, entrepreneurial spirit and open-mindedness: ETH Zurich stands on a bedrock of true Swiss values. Our university for science and technology dates back to the year 1855, when the founders of modern-day Switzerland created it as a centre of innovation and knowledge.
At ETH Zurich, 22200 students discover an ideal environment for independent thinking, researchers a climate which inspires top performance. Situated in the heart of Europe, yet forging connections all over the world, ETH Zurich is pioneering effective solutions to the global challenges of today and tomorrow.
Located in Switzerland, EPFL is one of Europe’s most vibrant and cosmopolitan science and technology institutions. It welcomes students, professors and collaborators of more than 120 nationalities. EPFL has both a Swiss and international vocation and focuses on three missions: teaching, research and innovation.
EPFL collaborates with an important network of partners, including other universities and colleges, secondary schools and gymnasiums, industry and the economy, political circles and the general public, with the aim of having a real impact on society.
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Founded in 2014 in Paris, DNA Script is a disruptive DNA synthesis company engineering biology to accelerate breakthroughs in life science. The company is pioneering an alternative to traditional DNA synthesis called enzymatic DNA synthesis, or EDS, making this technology accessible to labs with the world’s first benchtop enzymatic synthesis instrument, SYNTAXTM. By putting DNA synthesis back in the lab, DNA Script is transforming life science research and gives researchers complete control and unprecedented autonomy.
The Claude Nobs Foundation oversees the curation and conservation of Claude Nobs’ audio & visual archives, which is one of the World’s largest private collection of “live” music recordings – all of which was recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland) since 1967. Having started with jazz in the early days, over the next 54 years, the collection has grown and enriched itself with new genres of music ranging from blues and rock, to rap, soul, Latin and many more. In 2007, Claude Nobs Foundation joined forces with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) to create a unique, first of its kind, high resolution digital archive of the Festival. Considered both as an educational tool and research infrastructure, this audiovisual heritage has become a unique platform for students and researchers to innovate in fields such as acoustics, data science, archiving, musicology, museology, or neurosciences. Driven by the EPFL Cultural Heritage & Innovation Center, the “Montreux Jazz Digital Project” is an accelerator for innovation in technology, culture, social sciences and open science. Today the library has become one of the largest testimonies of live music in the World, with over 5,000 individual performances. The collection is unequaled and has a universal significance for current and future generations. As a result, in June 2013, it was inscribed to UNESCO’s international Memory of the World Register, the documentary equivalent of “World Heritage”.
Founded by MIT scientists, CATALOG is the world’s first company to develop a commercially viable system to convert zeros and ones used to store binary data in traditional storage into a combination of pre-synthesized DNA molecules. Shannon can easily fit in a family kitchen and uses technology derived from office printers to automate the encoding of data into DNA, which can scale to meet emerging commercial needs. She speeds the writing process and helps minimize costs, a critical step to making DNA storage practical. Shannon can convert warehouses of traditional storage systems into a sugar cube-sized container of DNA that can remain stable for thousands of years.
Every day, the people of Battelle apply science and technology to solving what matters most. At major technology centers and national laboratories around the world, Battelle conducts research and development, designs and manufactures products, and delivers critical services for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio since its founding in 1929, Battelle serves the national security, health and life sciences, and energy and environmental industries. For more information, visit www.battelle.org.
Ansa Biotechnologies is developing a new way to make DNA that will be faster, cleaner, and more accurate than existing methods. Currently, DNA is manufactured via a chemical method that has remained mostly unchanged for 35 years. Our enzyme-based approach promises to dramatically accelerate innovation in biological research and biotechnology, including therapeutics, diagnostics and biomanufacturing.
Western Digital creates environments for your data to thrive. As a leader in data infrastructure, we are driving the innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
At Twist Bioscience Corporation, we work in service of customers who are changing the world for the better. In fields such as health care, agriculture, industrial chemicals, academic research and data storage, by using our synthetic DNA tools, our customers are developing ways to better lives and improve the sustainability of the planet. We believe that the faster our customers succeed, the better for all of us, and we believe Twist Bioscience is uniquely positioned to help accelerate their efforts.
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Illumina is improving human health by unlocking the power of the genome. Our focus on innovation has established us as the global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, serving customers in the research, clinical and applied markets. Our products are used for applications in the life sciences, oncology, reproductive health, agriculture and other emerging segments.
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