tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post5346913937866910899..comments2024-03-16T18:42:21.178-07:00Comments on DSHR's Blog: Noteworthy papers at iPRES2013David.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-46395192094868828982013-09-09T10:04:10.904-07:002013-09-09T10:04:10.904-07:00The Wednesday keynote was Digital Information Stor...The Wednesday keynote was <i>Digital Information Storage in DNA</i> by Paul Bertone, based on the <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11875" rel="nofollow">same paper in Nature</a> as Ewan Birney's keynote at IDCC last January. Paul repeated the paper's claim that DNA storage would be cheaper than tape in 10 years. I debunked this claim in <a href="http://blog.dshr.org/2013/01/dna-as-storage-medium.html" rel="nofollow">this blog post</a>. In the questions I pressed him on the validity of their model of tape costs, and he backed away from defending it.<br /><br />I believe that <a href="http://blog.dshr.org/2013/07/immortal-media.html" rel="nofollow">DNA is likely to be a very important long-term storage medium</a>, and that the work the EMBL team is doing is very important. But the claim that DNA will be cheaper than tape in a decade is not credible. It is off by 3-4 orders of magnitude, and they need to stop making it if they want people in the storage business to take them seriously.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.com