Microbe Synthesized DNA for DNA-Based Data Storage - MI DNA DSC

Learn about an innovative EU-funded research project developing a revolutionary bacteria-based DNA data storage system in this 22-minute conference presentation. Discover how the MI-DNA project aims to create a low-cost, energy-efficient data drive using bacterial cells and simple hardware components to write, edit, store, and retrieve DNA-based data for short-, medium-, and long-term storage applications. Explore the project's approach of exploiting bacterial genetic mechanisms that have been evolutionarily optimized over billions of years, including color-sensitive genetic switches and DNA exchange processes. Understand the two main objectives: developing bacteria-based cartridges for writing and storing DNA-based data, with molecular dynamics simulation trajectory files serving as proof-of-concept. Get insights into the collaborative effort involving five partners from four European countries, including the Austrian Institute of Technology as coordinator, Technical University Munich for synthetic biology developments, SME Eko Refugium for software and hardware automation, Day One studio for commercialization, and University of Zagreb for biophysical support. Gain an overview of the project's goals, in vivo-based data storage approaches, and current development status since its launch in September 2023, presented by Ivan Barisic from the Austrian Institute of Technology at the 2025 Storage and Computing with DNA Conference.