Science Daily July 3, 2019
Researchers at Brown University have demonstrated that the metabolome (arrays of liquid mixtures containing sugars, amino acids and other types of small molecules) is an information-rich molecular system with diverse chemical dimensions which could be harnessed for information storage and processing. As a proof of principle, they demonstrated a workflow for representing abstract data in synthetic mixtures of metabolites. They wrote more than 100,000 bits of digital image data into metabolomes and stored that could be decoded with accuracy exceeding 99% using multi-mass logistic regression. These early demonstrations provide insight into some of the benefits and limitations of small-molecule chemical information systems…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE