DATANA - DNA Digital Data Storage Solution

• The mission of the DATANA project is to solve one of humanity’s key challenges in the digital era:
• To deliver high-speed and robust data storage solutions, that will be capable of storing escalating amounts of digital data, reduce the enormous environmental impact of existing technology and thus enable a sustainable digital future.

The encoding method should be able to produce long DNA fragments at miniscule volumes. The microarray-based (solid-phase) synthesizing technology can only produce small DNA fragments that must be assembled in a separate step, making the process tedious, costly, and prone to error as the DNA strands get longer. PCR approaches are able to produce longer DNA fragments that can store larger amounts of data, but they employ standard laboratory procedures that are labor-intensive, take a long time, require highly skilled personnel and large amounts of expensive reagents.

DATANA is introducing a game-changing innovation, reaching far beyond the current state of the art, as it drastically reduces the time and costs for DNA-based storing of data.