Data storage using peptide sequences

Cheuk Chi A. Ng; Wai Man Tam; Haidi Yin; Qian Wu; Pui-Kin So; Melody Yee-Man Wong; Francis C. M. Lau; Zhong-Ping Yao

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24496-9

Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Data storage using peptide sequences

Cheuk Chi A. Ng,
Wai Man Tam,
Haidi Yin,
Qian Wu,
Pui-Kin So,
Melody Yee-Man Wong,
Francis C. M. Lau,
Zhong-Ping Yao

Affiliations

Cheuk Chi A. Ng: State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Research Institute for Future Food and Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon
Wai Man Tam: Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon
Haidi Yin: State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Research Institute for Future Food and Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon
Qian Wu: State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Research Institute for Future Food and Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon
Pui-Kin So: University Research Facility in Life Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon
Melody Yee-Man Wong: University Research Facility in Chemical and Environmental Analysis, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon
Francis C. M. Lau: Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon
Zhong-Ping Yao: State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Research Institute for Future Food and Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24496-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Finding durable, high-density media for data storage is necessary to support the ever-expanding generation of digital data. Here, the authors use peptide sequences to store digital data and retrieve them using tandem mass spectrometry, proving that peptides can be used as a storage medium.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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