Nanowerk April 2, 2021
In support of the IARPA Molecular Information Storage (MIST) program researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a software called the Adaptive DNA Storage Codec (ADS Codex), that translates data files from what a computer understands into what biology understands. The short-term goal of MIST is to write 1 terabyte—a trillion bytes—and read 10 terabytes within 24 hours for $1,000. ADS Codex addresses two big obstacles to creating DNA data files: Figured out new strategies for error correction as the error rates while writing to molecular storage; Added additional information called error detection codes that can be used to validate the data when the software converts the data back to binary. The MIST project is stimulating a new coalition among storage vendors, DNA synthesis companies, DNA sequencing companies, and high-performance computing organizations…read more.Â
…Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed ADS Codex to translate the 0s and 1s of digital computer files into the four-letter code of DNA. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory