存储在DNA中而非磁带和硬盘上的档案可以保存数千年。就像所有绝妙的点子一样,这个想法也是在酒吧里诞生的。地处剑桥附近的欧洲生物信息学研究所的尼克·戈德曼和尤安·伯尼当时正考虑该如何处理他们的研究团队生成的源源不断的基因组数据,这些数据都得存档。数据量的增长速度超过了存储数据的硬盘容量的增长速度。戈德曼说:“这意味着存储成本在上升,但我们的预算却没有增加。”几杯啤酒下肚,两人开始考虑人工构造的 Archives stored in DNA rather than on tape and hard disk can be stored for thousands of years. Like all wonderful ideas, this idea is also born in the bar. Nick Goldman and You Annie Burney at the European Bioinformatics Institute near Cambridge were now considering how to handle the steady stream of genomic data generated by their research team, all of which are archived. The amount of data is growing faster than the amount of hard disk storage capacity. “This means storage costs are going up but our budget does not increase.” "A few glasses of beer have taken the plunge and both began to think about artificial construction