ADS Codex: Adaptive DNA Storage Codec
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Category: Software/Services
Developers: Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory
United States
Product Description:ADS Codex is a software codec, or translation tool, that allows the ones and zeros of computer binary data to be encoded and decoded from DNA data’s four-letter alphabet nucleotides. It provides a solution to the world’s need to reduce the physical space and energy consumption of long-term data storage.
Developers: Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory
United States
Product Description:ADS Codex is a software codec, or translation tool, that allows the ones and zeros of computer binary data to be encoded and decoded from DNA data’s four-letter alphabet nucleotides. It provides a solution to the world’s need to reduce the physical space and energy consumption of long-term data storage.
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