Ideas: The journey to DNA data storage
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GUEST HOST KARIN STRAUSS: I’m your guest host Karin Strauss, a senior principal research manager at Microsoft. For nearly a decade, my colleagues and I—along with a fantastic and talented group of collaborators from academia and industry—have been working together to help close the data creation–data storage gap. We’re producing far more digital information than we can possibly store. One solution we’ve explored uses synthetic DNA as a medium, and over the years, we’ve contributed to steady and promising progress in the area. We’ve helped push the boundaries of how much DNA writer can simultaneously store, shown that full automation is possible, and helped create an ecosystem for the commercial success of DNA data storage. And just this week, we’ve made one of our most advanced tools