Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA

Nick Goldman (), Paul Bertone, Siyuan Chen, Christophe Dessimoz, Emily M. LeProust, Botond Sipos and Ewan Birney
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Nick Goldman: European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, UK
Paul Bertone: European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, UK
Siyuan Chen: Agilent Technologies, Genomics–LSSU, 5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Santa Clara, California 95051, USA
Christophe Dessimoz: European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, UK
Emily M. LeProust: Agilent Technologies, Genomics–LSSU, 5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Santa Clara, California 95051, USA
Botond Sipos: European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, UK
Ewan Birney: European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, UK

Nature, 2013, vol. 494, issue 7435, 77-80

Abstract: An efficient and scalable strategy with robust error correction is reported for encoding a record amount of information (including images, text and audio files) in DNA strands; a ‘DNA archive’ has been synthesized, shipped from the USA to Germany, sequenced and the information read.

Date: 2013
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