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The other aspect is that the shelf life of DNA can be significantly longer than other mediums. I haven't personally done anything with DNA data storage, but the
by waiquoo 7y ago
The other aspect is that the shelf life of DNA can be significantly longer than other mediums. I haven't personally done anything with DNA data storage, but the idea is that tape storage is good for 30-50 yrs, but we can recover intact DNA from mammoths (~10,000 yrs)
- DoctorOetker 7y agoI believe that DNA recovery after 10k years is not very representative of DNA durability.
- waiquoo 7y agoYou are correct, but the variable of interest is recoverability
- cdirkx 7y agoIsn't this mostly due to the huge redundancy? All trillion cells of that mammoth carried duplicates of the encoded information, and recovering that information involves a lot of matching incomplete degraded strings against each other. The estimated half-life for DNA is apparently 521 years [1] (still quite a bit longer than 50 years). [1] https://www.livescience.com/38150-dna-degradation-rate.html https://www.livescience.com/38150-dna-degradation-rate.html