Where to store big data? In DNA: Nick Goldman at TEDxPrague

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Nick Goldman - English scientist - Where to store this huge volume of data? Into DNA

British scientist Nick Goldman graduated from Cambridge University and is employed in the European Bioinformatics Institute EBI in Hinxton. At the beginning of the year, a group working under his leadership published a new, significantly more advanced way to store data in synthetic DNA in the Nature journal. Tentatively they encode all 154 Shakespeare's sonnets in it. DNA acts as a natural memory disk, where the genetic information translated into chemical language are permanently stored. Among the encoded files there was the recording of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, known as "I have a dream." Nick Goldman will share his own dream with us at TEDxPrague 2013.

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Nick Goldman - Anglický vědec - Kam uložit to obrovské množství dat? Do DNA.

Britský vědec Nick Goldman absolvoval univerzitu v Cambridge a působí v Evropském institutu bioinformatiky EBI v Hinxtonu. Počátkem roku publikovala skupina pracující pod jeho vedením v časopise Nature nový, výrazně pokročilejší způsob ukládání dat do syntetické DNA. Pokusně do ní zakódovali všechny Shakespearovy sonety, jichž je 154. DNA působí jako přírodní paměťový disk, kde jsou trvale uloženy genetické informace přeložené do chemického jazyka. Mezi zakódovanými soubory byl i záznam proslovu Martina Luthera Kinga jr., známý jako "I have a dream".

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