<\/strong><\/p>\nProfessor Thomas Heinis, a computer science professor at Imperial College London who researches DNA-based data storage, is sceptical about the lack of concrete data that Atlas has published about the performance of Atlas Eon 100. He pointed to the fact that Catalog DNA, which made similar promises about its Shannon storage solution, went bust a few months ago.<\/p>\n
“I have no doubt that they have built an impressive device, but it\u2019s difficult to appreciate without concrete information,” he told Live Science, adding that the major challenge to commercialising DNA storage is synthesis, not sequencing.<\/p>\n
“It sounds banal, but if the write\/synthesis cost is not competitive, then there is no point in reading\/sequencing cost efficiently. You cannot read (cheaply) what you cannot afford to write. Currently, synthesis is orders of magnitude too expensive while sequencing is closer to tape but still more expensive. Despite being a firm believer in DNA storage, a lot of technological progress is needed and I have not seen anyone with an economically viable solution yet.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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