Title :
Biological Cells as Storage Devices
Author :
DeFrangesco, Ralph M.
Author_Institution :
Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
Hard drive storage has been made cheaper, faster and larger. Disk storage technology in general has seen incredible advances including reduction in size, an increase in real density, and an increase in internal data rates, but the future of hard disk technology is uncertain. Biological cells are amazing machines. Cells store DNA, the information that is used to create life, and manufacture proteins. This paper proposes using a biological cell as a computer storage device much like a hard drive stores user data today.
Keywords :
biocomputing; digital storage; DNA; biological cells; computer storage device; proteins; Amino acids; Biological cells; DNA; Educational institutions; Error analysis; Hard disks; Proteins; Cells; storage;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 2012 Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0798-7
DOI :
10.1109/ITNG.2012.154