Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Dynamic and scalable DNA-based information storage

  • Kevin N. Lin,
  • Kevin Volkel,
  • James M. Tuck,
  • Albert J. Keung

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16797-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The physical architectures of information storage dictate how data is encoded, organised and accessed. Here the authors use DNA with a single-strand overhang as a physical address to access specific data and do in-storage file operations in a scalable and reusuable manner.