Researchers Can Store an Operating System, a Movie and a Computer Virus on DNA

Do you know — 1 Gram of DNA Can Store 1,000,000,000 Terabyte of Data for 1000+ Years.
Just last year, Microsoft purchased 10 Million strands of synthetic DNA from San Francisco DNA synthesis startup called Twist Bioscience and collaborated with researchers from the University of Washington to focus on using DNA as a data storage medium.

However, in the latest experiments, a pair of researchers from Columbia University and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) have come up with a new technique to store massive amounts of data on DNA, and the results are marvelous.

The duo successfully stored around 2mb in data, encoding a total number of six files, which include:

• A full computer operating system
• An 1895 French movie "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat"
• A $50 Amazon gift card
• A computer virus
• A Pioneer plaque
• A 1948 study by information theorist Claude Shannon

The new research, which comes civility of Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski, has been distributed in the Science Magazine.