2023-10-21 17:17:21
Published on October 21, 2023 at 7:17 p.m. Modified on October 21, 2023 at 7:18 p.m.
Using DNA to store long-term data is the project launched at the beginning of this month, in which the Haute Ecole Arc (HE-Arc) and the University of Geneva are participating. In the age of the digital industry, data takes center stage. However, their storage has an impact. Currently, data centers consume 1-1.5% of global electricity and are responsible for 1% of greenhouse gas emissions, figures show from the International Energy Agency. There is also the question of their long-term viability, as storage media can be damaged, for example by natural disasters, or simply degraded by time.
To address these issues, the DNAMIC project (for “DNA microfactory for autonomous archiving”), funded by the European Horizon program, brings together five university institutions and two economic partners from Germany, the United Kingdom, Lithuania, Austria and Switzerland. Objective: to develop an autonomous microfactory capable of encoding and decoding data from synthetic DNA. The idea is a little over sixty years old, but until a few years ago, it faced technical and economic constraints.
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