From miracle to routine: Using DNA to store books digitally

It is impossible to use DNA to encode the contents of a written document, yet it’s being done. This remarkable achievement takes the form of a book of more than 50,000 words plus some illustrations and a programme for the pc being stored using genetic material. As an aside from doing this, scientists involved assert that it could be cheaper to do it this way than to use ‘traditional’ digital means to store the data. This isn’t the case at present, but could happen with the development of DNA-based devices that could be held in the hand and could incorporate sequences of DNA that would simplify the stored data.

One particularly noteworthy advantage, according to the advocates of this approach, is that the stored data is robust and will not deteriorate. They claim it will be readable – I supposed based on the evidence of ancient DNA that has been found –  after thousands of years.

www.Richarddawkins.net/articles/646791-book-written-in-dna-code/