AI supercharges DNA data retrieval, making it 3,200 times faster

Forward-looking: Researchers around the world are embracing DNA-based storage right now. Mixing digital data and biology could bridge the best of both worlds, though a few challenges are still slowing market and industry adoption. Visionary solutions using DNA sequencing have been hailed as the future of the storage world for a few years now. Biology seems to have solved the data encoding problem a few billion years ago, so we could learn a thing or two from nature while we prepare to expand the world's digital realm to 180 zettabytes – amounting to 180 billion terabytes – by the end of 2025. Israeli researchers say they have found a way to significantly improve the data retrieval process, which is one of the biggest issues DNA storage technology is facing right now. A team at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology used a specifically trained AI model to speed up data recovery from DNA strands by 3,200 times. Needless to say, the process is still much slower than "modern" storage ... Read full article.