"In this proof-of-principle project, two quintessential music performances from the Montreux Jazz Festival – "Smoke on the Water," performed by Deep Purple and "Tutu," performed by Miles Davis – have been encoded onto DNA and read back with 100 percent accuracy."
"Amazingly, storing the entire six petabyte Montreux Jazz Festival’s collection would result in DNA smaller than one grain of rice.”
“DNA is a remarkably efficient molecule that can remain stable for millennia,” explains Bill Peck, Ph.D., chief technology officer of Twist Bioscience. “This is a very exciting project: we are now in an age where we can use the remarkable efficiencies of nature to archive master copies of our cultural heritage in DNA. As we develop the economies of this process new performances can be added any time. Unlike current storage technologies, nature’s media will not change and will remain readable through time. There will be no new technology to replace DNA, nature has already optimized the format.”
"With this technology, digital data encoded in DNA remains preserved for millennia."
