The book was packed in a small DNA tape-reading requires an expensive reading device

KUstantamo Asimov Press published In Januarythe text is coded and packed in DNA tapes.

DNA is densely packed in each of our cells. Human DNA has our traditional information.

The DNA book, on the other hand, is encoded with a number of science fiction and biotechnology essays. Its cost is $ 60, or about $ 57.

With money The book gets its physical copy, but also its version nucleinhappina That is, in the form of DNA and RNA.

The data is packed in a metal capsule filled with dried DNA.

There can be a lot of use for densely packed data. Humanity when producing more information and data than ever.

Publisher Asimov Press re -encoded the book Catalog through. It specializes in DNA processing.

Catalog produced about 500,000 DNA molecules for the book. The 240 pages of the book are suitable for the company’s DNA mode.

The number of pages corresponds to exactly 481 280 byte data, says Technology Writing Wired.

This DNA -packed data is at least a thousand times denser than data on a regular computer hard disk, where it is zero and number one.

Knowledge of The encoded Catalog used new data packaging technology.

The company compares it to the historic printing method developed by Gutenberg from 1454. Gutenberg used detachableand it revolutionized the production and duplication of the books.

Just as separate letters can form endless words, the catalog DNA-Aposki can represent endless bits, ie zero and one.

The company uses certain enzymes to encode this information from DNA to a binary state and vice versa.

Catalog Technology Director David Turk says that coding a book as DNA is now much cheaper. A thousand copies cost thousands of dollars.

“We can code the text into DNA. Then we can produce as many copies as we want from the book molecular biology tools. DNA itself is coded only once, ”he explains.

When The Catalog had coded the book in the language of DNA, dried DNA molecules into powder and shipped them from the United States to France.

In France they were taken To Imagene. It is a company that is stored in biological products.

Imagene packed the molecules into capsules made of stainless steel.

The capsule is airtight. There is no moisture or oxygen inside. In this mode, DNA can remain for thousands of years, manufacturers promise.

If The recorded data wants to read, it is done with enzymes that can determine the four amino acids, or the ACGT order of the letters.

This coding was done by a company focused on DNA sequencing Plasmidsaurus.

Asimov Press has received nearly 500 pre -orders, says the book editor Xander Balwit.

Technology director Turek says that DNA storage could sometimes replace, for example, data centers that are increasingly eating energy.

Instead, DNA-Data can rest in your capsule for years, without any expenses.

However, data transferred to DNA is not suitable for storing data that is often needed.

However, it can save on costs if you have to keep large amounts of long -standing information, Turek ponders.