Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

High density DNA data storage library via dehydration with digital microfluidic retrieval

  • Sharon Newman,
  • Ashley P. Stephenson,
  • Max Willsey,
  • Bichlien H. Nguyen,
  • Christopher N. Takahashi,
  • Karin Strauss,
  • Luis Ceze

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09517-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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DNA as a high density storage medium is receiving increasing attention, but long term physical storage is an unsolved problem. Here the authors show that up to 1 TB of data stored as dehydrated DNA spots on a glass cartridge can be retrieved in a spot of water using digital microfluidics with minimal data loss and contamination.