DNA data storage is an attractive option for digital data storage because of its extreme density, durability and eternal relevance. This is especially attractive when contrasted with the exponential growth in world-wide digital data production. In this talk we will present our efforts in building an end-to-end system, from the computational component of encoding and decoding to the molecular biology component of random access, sequencing and fluidics automation. We will also discuss some early efforts in building a hybrid electronic/molecular computer system that can offer more than just data storage, for example, image similarity search.

Learning Objectives
Describe the properties of synthetic DNA as a digital data storage medium
Describe how an end-to-end DNA data storage system works
Describe how to perform certain types of computation with synthetic DNA molecules

Presented by
Karin Strauss
Microsoft

Luis Ceze
OctoML