Abstract
Over the years, as humans have made progress, data has come to the forefront and has become one of the principal elements of life. No matter the field, all aspects of life are now dependent on data in one way or the other. Be it hospitals or financial institutions; sports teams or researchers, all operate on some form of data during their functioning. This ever-increasing dependency on data further leads to the need for its storage. The capability of present storage mechanisms is not able to keep up with the exponentially increasing demand. This along with other factors such as high setup costs, high maintenance charges, security, and accessibility are pushing towards an alternative avenue of storage. DNA or the code of life is very similar to the binary based data systems that we operate on, hence is being looked at, as the alternative to conventional methods. This field has seen massive amounts of developments in the recent past and is finding a strong footing. Its theoretical capability to store all the data ever created in a finger-sized device is one of the many factors, which makes it such an interesting field to study and know about. This paper describes how this domain of storage system(s) basically functions, the work is done in this field in the past, its advantages and limitations along with the challenges that this domain needs to overcome to become practically viable bringing a paradigm shift in computing.
Highlights
In this era of information, where data is rightfully treated as one of the principal elements of life, one thing that cannot be ignored is the explosion in the rate of its creation and exchange
First the single strands are assembled with the combination of the code to be encoded in the form of A,C,G and T, the sequence of which is obtained from the process as explained above; to form oligonucleotides and later pairing them up correctly, using techniques such as oligonucleotide synthesis and polymerase chain reaction to form deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) strands
We are past the days where DNA based storage was considered a part of people’s imagination
Summary
In this era of information, where data is rightfully treated as one of the principal elements of life, one thing that cannot be ignored is the explosion in the rate of its creation and exchange. With it comes the issue of accessibility, i.e. if the data size is very large, it can’t be carried in flash drives and external hard drives, and the user must be connected to the internet to access the data present in some remote cloud-based service and, if the user is offline carrying big data becomes a big problem These solutions run the danger of being corrupted when brought in touch with certain external environments, which brings in contention their ability to act as archival systems for very long periods of time. Just one gram of DNA is said to store about 455 exabytes of data [4], solving the real-estate and infrastructure side of problems and since that much amount of data can be localised to that little space, it allows users to carry their own data centers along with them wherever they go, providing them with better accessibility as well as returning physical ownership of their data This solves the problem of lack of privacy in conventional storage mediums. We conclude by understanding the current situation and the future possibilities in the field
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