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Cover Picture: Robust Chemical Preservation of Digital Information on DNA in Silica with Error‐Correcting Codes (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 8/2015)
Author(s) -
Grass Robert N.,
Heckel Reinhard,
Puddu Michela,
Paunescu Daniela,
Stark Wendelin J.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201500509
Subject(s) - dna , macromolecular crowding , nanoparticle , palimpsest , macromolecule , chemistry , computer science , nanotechnology , materials science , art , art history , biochemistry
Genetic information embedded in our bones may endure for thousands of years, while data written on hard drives will barely survive 50 years. In their Communication on page 2552 ff., R. N. Grass and co‐workers show how artificially fossilized DNA (DNA encapsulated in silica) and modern data encoding techniques can be utilized to safely store, for example, the text of the Archimedes Palimpsest for future millennia. The error‐correcting codes correct storage‐related errors and allow for perfect recovery of the information.