Preserve the Human Genome in your Home or Office
NanoRosetta is seeking to bring the archival industry into
the modern age by using nanotechnology to print analog information onto nickel
discs. With a life-span of 10,000 years, no other technology can match the
durability and longevity of these discs, and because of the microscopic size of
the images printed on the discs, we are able to print high volumes of data that
were once thought to be unprintable.
To showcase this paradigm-shifting technology, we are
seeking to print multiple sets of all 3.2 BILLION characters of the Human
genome on five nickel discs about the size of CDs. Previously, this task would
have required a room of books to archive the information as analog data.