Using Your DNA as a Hard Drive
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Using DNA as a hard drive? Its not as crazy as it sounds! Scientists at the European Bioinformatics Institute over in the UK, have actually done it and the results have been impressive. Will this ever become something you can do at home? Anthony has the details!
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Sony will soon be releasing an updated Bluray player that's compatible with .dna files.
I love the concept of DNA storage. Huge storage in compact spaces, a hard drive that does not have to be replaced every 5-10 years because your hard rive is highly unstable and degrades and corruptable easily and quickly.
Can I learn Kung fu like in the matrix?
Whoops, yes! You're right. At least I was right on the number of people. Sheesh. Dumb mistake. -Anthony
Oh the nostalgia of the intro song. From the future/present of 2017 everything changed
That's about how much a 5 GB hard drive cost 20 years ago.
This is what I love about computers and computer technology, every year the technology gets better and cheaper.
There's not really a set order- some weeks one of us can do more, some weeks the others can. This project is also my main focus right now, while Trace and Laci have other stuff they have to split their time with.
Hopefully it doesn't bug you too much that this is a me-heavy week. :) -Anthony
im looking forward to using teleportation, forcefields, and invisibility technologies in the future, that have already been tested today!
dont know why my comment was rated "has too many negative votes" because the G-C and A-T thing is not entirely necessary, in electronics we do error detection all the time. One very convenient one is the Hamming code and it counts the number of 0's and 1's in a length of data. you need x bits extra for data of length (2^x-1), example if you are transferring 31 bits, you need 5 extra bits only. For DNA the length would become (4^x-1).This effectively removes the need G-C and A-T pairs
I don't think so- if you replace your dna with this particular DNA it would be a bad thing, since it's not human DNA, but you could put a lot of data into something small enough to carry on your person without it being a hassle. - Anthony
A FINGER DRIVE! YES!
Already exists.
I'm going to declare a student, tutor relationship. One seems younger than the other so I think the older one has gone "Hey, you want to see the lasers I keep in my basement?" and the younger guy has gone "Yeah, sure! Oh you actually do have lasers down here. That's cool I guess."
Guys also can we PLEASE talk about the stock photo @2:54 and like what the subtext of the relationship between those two dudes is? Like, we can assume they work together at the laser factory or whatever, but doesn't it seem like THERE'S SOMETHING THERE? (also lol at the photo we used) -Anthony
probably not ideal for primary storage, maybe ideal for archiving/backup least used data.
Accidently? its bigger chance that a normal bug will mutate into something bad that random code will turn into something remotly dangerus.
I think that was just because Laci was busy traveling and being on Dr. Phil. I could be wrong, but I expect we'll be seeing more of Laci in the next week.
I go on sprees of watching your videos, they're great. I like to use the links u provide in annotations at the end, but I don't want to cut you off by clicking on them. Then I have to go back to where the annotations were after you were done talking... blah blah.
CAN YOU keep the annotations there for a couple more seconds after the video is over? That would be fantastic. You can even use a RUclips countdown timer.
Actually there are 4 possible states. A and T connect, and G and C connect, but that does not affect the order. The inverse of it is just stored as the second side of the strand. When your body is making proteins, it connects amino acids to a strand of RNA based on a piece of your DNA. Each amino acid connects to a group of 3 bases. If there were only two possible states, then there would be 8 possible sets. With 4 states, there can be 64. There are, I believe, 36 amino acids.
This combined with cybernetics will truly be the next step in human evolution.
Because A must connect to a T and G must connect to a C, they can only be in 2 states. I believe this is what he meant when he said if one part is damaged it can easily be replaced. Say an A disappears. We know because the T is still there, an A needs to be in the missing slot.
as far a i know the data on cds and dvds has a lot of redundancies and error correction stuff too, so that is not new... you can do it with all digital data regardless of the storage medium, the only drawback is, that the more error correction you build in the more storage space gets used...
Well done, easy to understand ...and entertaining. Thank you! It was very helpful.
I want to be able to upload my mind into a computer, a real-time link of that consciousness with my biological body, and several clones and original, germ-lined bodies also with real-time links to the computer, so I would in fact be a single consciousness operating on multiple biological organisms.
so you want to become a hive mind?
Yes.
Bill Hutchinson assimilate... join us borg? :D
I'll make my own Borg. With blackjack... and hookers!
Good news! You may soon be able to upload your brain to a cloud:
_US startup Nectome is promising to upload customers’ brains to the cloud using a pioneering technique it has trialled on rabbits._
_The only catch, according to the company’s cofounder? The process is “100% fatal”._
*Source:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/14/nectome-startup-upload-brain-the-cloud-kill-you
The animation at 0:20 is in AC4: Black Flag, on the computer screens explaining how the "animus" works using data found in DNA.
Dnews, You guys are really awesome finding this stuff out and telling us about it.It's really interesting stuff and fun to share.It's also interesting to imagine what the near future will be like with these technologies that you inform us about :D
since there are 4 different chemicals GCAT, they can make those represent not just 0's and 1's but all 0 to 3, halving the weight of DNA needed
This brings a whole new definition to "Catching a virus".
I was thinking:
Well, why don't they use each character to represent two bits? It's possible, and would make for more compact file storage...
Until I realized:
It's such a huge amount of memory, why would they worry about compact file storage?
Thank for the video.
we need human-god adapter for this
Working RUclips is the future technology I am looking forward to the most. Here's to hoping I will be alive to see it.
*RUclips loads instantly to 23secs, then stops* Why RUclips, WHY!?
DNA has a higher entropy
wow that means i can download evrything and do whatever i whant, yay
Anthony Carboni uses Torrent! Nice.
I wonder if you could isolate some segment of DNA and read it in the same format to be a song, or a chapter of a book, or even just a coherent sentence. That would be cool.
Science I want to see: I don't care if anything else gets made. I WANT A PORTAL GUN DAMMIT!!
Assassin's Creed??? Anyone...?
I bet you could do it with lots of different kinds of chemicals.
Not a problem, unless your trying to show the videos to someone new and you can't seem to find the rest of the cast :)
DNA storage is cool, but it will not be the ultimate storage device. More likely it will be used to encode data into biological organisms. Other methods to encode data at the atomic scale will surpass DNA data storage, if not already. As far as mechanical means though, this technique is pretty mind blowing.
Well a 250mb hardrive costs tens of thousands of dollars 50 years ago now its like 50 cents.
Somebody can create lifeforms!
rewriting genetic makeup on the fly? does that mean we could finally make sonic?
soo... when will they release a dna player lol. id love to listen to my music in an organic format XD
150,000 dvd's on your pinkie, I think it would be used for much more than that.
I think that might be the biggest problem. I mean it would be the equivalent of manufacturing DNA at home since they have to be changed every time new information is added. I'm thinking we still have a long time until this becomes available for people (although if you need a lot of information that won't be changed that could be done now [like the military might])
I need to store my art on it
Acknowledging incorrectness on the net?!?!?! Sshh, you'll break it!
Teleporters! Not only would it be faster more efficient travel, but the tech could also cure pretty much all desease, make surgeries allot easier, and where there's teleporters there's holodecks! And replicators would be cool too.
I Wonder what will happen if you store there a computer virus...
That is amazing. And, it does sound a little like black magic!!
@james braselton No.
Hide a Kesha album xD
DNA better have some good Read/Write speeds ;)
Well what of placing a type of "hard-drive" on your skin like an extra skin as thick as a T-shirt? With maybe a system that takes dying skin and converts it to be added to your storage making a nice dynamic storage.
your brain wouldn't be a HDD because it doesn't have 7200 RPM going on lol
There is so much DNA in the world, surely somewhere there is a strand that (when read in this machine or something) perfectly mimics the ten hour nyan cat video?
It seems like encoding stem cells before reinsertion into the human body to repair damaged tissue will become a booming pirate business. Could even pay for things after the DNA is recollected with particularly sensitive or valuable data.
Here's a thought: reconnect a limb using this method, and be certain to store particularly valuable data and somehow mark said stemcells so that you know what to harvest post mortum or when your hard up for cash. Could have em glow in UV for example.
Oh Anthony, you and your kesha album. :p
right. it would be an SSD :P
You sorta look like Jonny Gelacki.
(He plays Leonard Hofstader in the show The Big Bang Theory.
A hard drive that works on chemical stuff , that's what I want !!
that would take alot of parrots lol.
I am lokking forward to floating pandas!
So, one day, instead of putting it on cloud storage, getting a USB at the hardware store, or emailing it, I'll just use a little tool to take out a bit of my blood and have it convert into storage? Seems legit.
G C A T.....G cat?.....Grumpy Cat????
daaamn, what a boring time right now on earth, i'm going to freeze and wake up in a few decades
I suspect most of that data in the future will be become read-only as for security measures, which the only "safe" way to change those is in a specialized device mechanically.
I can't wait until the day when I become a walking piratebay.
Some of you might heard of Illumina, They are the people who are doing this kind of stuff.
So one day touching will be made illegal as a form of peer to peer file sharing.
When can we get Bioshock's vigors, plasmids, and tonics?
I'm waiting for full dive virtual reality
I would like to be able to read stored data on my own dna that I have already recorded since the birth of consciousness.
So I could become the intersect like the one in chuck but basically fill it with parkur and kungfu?
Well, i guess if we can 'store' and pass on/recall memories in/through dna, it's safe to assume the human brain is already a 'digital' processor, lol. :P
And then someone stores a big file on their dna and it mutates into a freaky monster and it takes over the planet. lol
assassins creed animus here i come lol
Well I would assume you wouldn't change your own DNA but you would have devices that storage changed DNA...
Mirco-DNA Flash Disk :)
I wonder what an organism would turn out like if its DNA were to have the same genetic make up as the one they used as a hard drive
in 6 gramm of DNA you can storage theoretical about 3072 Exabyte ^^
"little things like that...." :)
"Hard" drive indeed.
If they put this in a living cell, what kind of life would it make?
does it have moving parts?
i would store all my data in my finger xD plug my finger into a usb port with a little condom like glove! haha
DO YOUR HOMEWORK....GOSH!
Assassins Creed?
I was thinking along the line of using a human Brain.
"A strand of DNA." Correction: 23 strands.
"oh damn i got finger cramp again."
incredible
Star Trek Voyager: "Bio-Neural circuitry"?
I WANT A PORTAL GUN
I share your dream good sir (or madam or other). Though I'd add the use of nanomachines to both copy brain a and reformat brain b to be as close as possible to brain a. Without that, cloning is just having an identical twin. In addition add: whole brain emulation+body simulation, near perfected tissue engineering, genetic mods, near perfected cybernetics, & families and corporations having brain-to-brain link group minds(whose members get to keep individuality),and a solar system scale nation.
Bye bye dropbox and cloud storage ...
I can install Windows on my finger, Mac on the other, Ubuntu ...
It's probably not gonna be out for awhile but using DNA computers basically to store things and play games with. What if you could hook up yourself to a computer and use yourself as a memory chip so to speak? That'll be pretty interesting.
Matrix?
It would be really cool to take a DNA strand from an organism and translate that the same way with binary to see what images or sounds it would make up. Somebody jump on it, I wanna hear what DNA sounds like :]
for some reason your videos have very poor fps and quality, and your videos are the only ones that do this for me