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ArticleNature communications2019

High density DNA data storage library via dehydration with digital microfluidic retrieval.

Sharon Newman, Ashley P Stephenson, Max Willsey, Bichlien H Nguyen, Christopher N Takahashi, Karin Strauss, Luis Ceze

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Primer-Disk-Enabled DNA Data Storage System with Index and Record-Many-Read-Many Features.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  10. DNA storage: The future direction for medical cold data storage.Synthetic and systems biotechnology · 2025
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  12. A primordial DNA store and compute engine.Nature nanotechnology · 2024
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  14. DNA-DISK: Automated end-to-end data storage via enzymatic single-nucleotide DNA synthesis and sequencing on digital microfluidics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  16. Processing DNA Storage through Programmable Assembly in a Droplet-Based Fluidics System.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023
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  19. DNA Data Storage.Biotech (Basel (Switzerland)) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Sharon NewmanSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
Ashley P StephensonSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
Max WillseySchool of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
Bichlien H NguyenSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
Christopher N TakahashiSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
Karin StraussSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
Luis CezeSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA. luisceze@cs.washington.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1377-6217

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA promises to be a high density data storage medium, but physical storage poses a challenge. To store large amounts of data, pools must be physically isolated so they can share the same addressing scheme. We propose the storage of dehydrated DNA spots on glass as an approach for scalable DNA data storage. The dried spots can then be retrieved by a water droplet using a digital microfluidic device. Here we show that this storage schema works with varying spot organization, spotted masses of DNA, and droplet retrieval dwell times. In all cases, the majority of the DNA was retrieved and successfully sequenced. We demonstrate that the spots can be densely arranged on a microfluidic device without significant contamination of the retrieval. We also demonstrate that 1 TB of data could be stored in a single spot of DNA and successfully retrieved using this method.

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Lab-On-A-Chip DevicesMicrofluidicsComputational BiologyDesiccationDNAEquipment DesignGlassInformation Storage and RetrievalWaterDNAWater

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PMID30979873
PMCPMC6461645

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