P.A.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Accredited by NAAC with "A" grade
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Accredited by NBA

DATA STORAGE IN DNA

By
S.Mithunchand
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3rd year
EEE
 Contents

• Introduction
• Why DNA Storage?

• DNA v/s Other Storage Devices

• Encoding and Decoding
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Conclusion
 INTRODUCTION

• DNA storage was first introduced by Mikhail Neiman in 19

65.

• Its main idea is to store data in base sequence of DN

A.

• It uses simple mathematical calculation.

Why DNA Storage?

• The demand for data storage devices is increasing day by day as

more and more data is generated every day.

• Presently devices such as optical discs, portable hard drives, a

nd flash drives are used to store data.

• As the data increases, the current data storage technology w

ould not be enough to store data in future as data is growing
every day.
• To backup our data, we are using various hard drives and big data
centers to store the important data.

• DNA type of storage system is more compact than current magne

tic tape or hard drive storage systems due to the high data storag
e in DNA.

• Currently it was reported that in 1 gram of DNA 215 petabytes (215

million gigabytes) could be stored.
DNA v/s Other Storage Devices
How data is stored in DNA?

• In classical computers data is stored in binary form.

• But in DNA storage we use 4 digit code i.e A,T,C,G.

• Binary data is converted to DNA data.

• Every 0 becomes A or C. Every 1 becomes T or G.

Encoding and Decoding
Advantages

• Huge amount of data can be stored.

• Stores digital files without electricity for thousands of years.

• They are highly secure, compact and easy to carry.

• Environment friendly.
Disadvantages

• Cost is high

• The retrieval process is slower than that of a personal co

mputers.

• Many types of errors are associated with the current mach

ines dealing with DNA.
Conclusion

• Thus, using DNA for data storage, it is possible to store h

uge amount of data in very less size.

• As DNA can retain data for millions of years, it is possible

to store data for a long time.

• This technique can be used in future to store the whole dat

a of the various companies in very small space.
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