# How we can store digital data in DNA

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxVienna
- Speaker: Dina Zielinski
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/dina_zielinski_how_we_can_store_digital_data_in_dna)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

From floppy disks to thumb drives, every method of storing data eventually becomes obsolete. What if we could find a way to store all the world's data forever? Bioinformatician Dina Zielinski shares the science behind a solution that's been around for a few billion years: DNA.

## Lectures

1. [How we can store digital data in DNA](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/dina_zielinski_how_we_can_store_digital_data_in_dna/7238295832b7), 13 min (TED's player)