title: Synthetic DNA: the next generation of big data storage.
abstract: With world wide data predicted to exceed 40 trillion gigabytes by 2020, big data storage is a very real and escalating problem. Herein, we discuss the utility of synthetic DNA as a robust and eco-friendly archival data storage solution of the future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland.
authors.forename: Aisling
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: O' Driscoll
authors.forename: Roy D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Sleator
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000639:trends; D004247:DNA / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000235:genetics; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid / Q000295:instrumentation*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D004247:DNA