So then, how do your read out the data? Do you toss the chip into a Petri dish? -- Gene On Monday, May 22, 2017, 4:23:07 PM PDT, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:FYI -- Provides a whole new meaning for 'cloud seeding'... BTW, I seem to recall previously suggesting that HAKMEM be published in DNA, but got no interest. Should I try again? 'Think of those old floppy disks you can't read anymore or clay tablets with indecipherable hieroglyphs. Unlike such media, DNA probably won't ever go out of style.' https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607880/microsoft-has-a-plan-to-add-dna-da... 'The aim is a "proto-commercial system in three years storing some amount of data on DNA in one of our data centers, for at least a boutique application," says Doug Carmean, a partner architect at Microsoft Research. He describes the eventual device as the size of a large, 1970s-era Xerox copier.' 'Internally, Microsoft harbors the even more ambitious goal of replacing tape drives, a common format used for archiving information. "We hope to get it branded as 'Your Storage with DNA,'" says Carmean.' 'Formatted in DNA, every movie ever made would fit inside a volume smaller than a sugar cube.' 'Last July, Microsoft publicly announced it had stored 200 megabytes of data in DNA strands, including a music video, setting a record. The work, described in a paper published in March on the pre-print server Biorxiv, has been led by Carmean and Karin Strauss, both of Microsoft Research, and the University of Washington laboratory of computer scientist Luis Ceze.' http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/03/07/114553 'Based on the several weeks it took to carry out their experiment, Carmean estimates that the rate of moving data into DNA was only 400 bytes per second. Microsoft says that needs to increase to 100 megabytes per second.' 'Think of those old floppy disks you can't read anymore or clay tablets with indecipherable hieroglyphs. Unlike such media, DNA probably won't ever go out of style.' '"We'll always be reading DNA as long as we are human," says Carmean.'