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Cracking the code on DNA storage

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Researchers are tapping DNA to create a new and different type of storage media. The technology could prove revolutionary.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 7
      July 2017
      89 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3116227
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