Abstract:

The total amount of data produced in the world is growing at a very fast rate, however, the increase in data storage capacity and the revolution in storage support is much slower than that of data generation. How to store, archive and process such a large amount of data becomes a critical and difficult challenge. Researchers believe that they have found a solution to this problem by analyzing the chemical processes that occur in the body of animals and also in plants. Among these processes, animal and plant cells can store or exchange data from one cell to another systematically, and the storage process happens in each cell using a molecule called deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The storage capacity of synthetic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) make it one of the promising candidates for archival storage systems. In addition, the high density, large capacity and long-term stability of DNA molecules make them an emerging storage medium particularly suitable for long-term storage of large data sets. In this paper we present the technology of DNA storage which aims to optimize the storage of masses of data or what we call Big data. We study its storage capacity when it comes to a huge amount of data as well as its operating principle and its added values compared to available technologies.