Posted on 03/08/2024 6:41:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
The new processor stores data in modified DNA molecules and uses microfluidic channels to perform basic computations.
Scientists have created a new biocomputing chip that makes calculations using a DNA substrate, including mathematical operations essential to artificial intelligence (AI) training and big data processing.
Researchers described the new biocomputing platform Oct. 19,2023, in the journal PLOS One. DNA is known as the blueprint for life and encodes genetic information, like data can be encoded onto electronic-based storage devices.
DNA-based devices have previously been used to encode data on a small scale, but this prototype chip uses DNA to process data too.
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"DNA is excellent at storing information, in fact, it is much better than the electronic modes of memory because it is about 3-to-6 orders of magnitude more compact than most memory hardware that we have; it is also much more reliable and durable," study co-author Amlan Ganguly, head of the Department of Computer Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology, said in a statement.
DNA has long been proposed as a more effective way to store data than conventional methods, such as hard drives and solid state drives (SSDs), and companies such as Microsoft have also identified DNA as one candidate to store and manage skyrocketing amounts of data. Researchers have previously built DNA-based storage devices, including encoding the DNA molecules of bacteria with a video of a horse in 2017.
But data transfer speeds on DNA-based storage platforms are much slower than conventional storage devices, according to a 2018 paper published in the journal 3Biotech. DNA storage is also much more expensive to manufacture.
In addition, not just storing but processing data on devices built from DNA has been relatively unexplored.
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Singularity.
After Maas Biolabs invents the biochip, people will start to speak of When It Changed.
DNA-based computing: not a new idea
TransHuman? No, I prefer to be known as TransComputer …..
Why am I thinking “bubble memory”? There are more interesting memory technologies on the horizon.
“DNA-based computing: not a new idea”
Depends on how you define new. I remember reading about this in the 70s, but it was not reality until the 90s
maybe in “omni” or “playboy” or who knows Amazing Stories, or maybe ironically “Analog”?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00266
I see what you did there. Read those books in high school.
WHAT THE????????
If it ever becomes available, I recommend they pass on the use of Biden DNA when making more chips.
Transam?
Daystrom
Isolinear chips! Right out of Star Trek.
DAYSTROM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, imagine using Dr. Richard Daystrom's memory engrams combined with DNA recovered from Monica's infamous "Blue Dress!"
You'd have the "Ultimate Computer!"
Regards,
Great. Now the computer can really have a virus. You’ll have to separate the compter chips 6 feet apart and have them wear tiny masks and get the vax.
And now it’s starting to get scary.
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