Digital and biological storage systems — a quantitative comparison

Author

Bilski, Tomasz

Author_Institution

Poznan Univ. of Technol., Poznan

fYear

2007

fDate

10-12 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

23

Abstract

The paper presents a quantitative comparison of digital/electronic and biological storage systems. Two biological storage systems are included: DNA and brain memory. First we will show some examples of digital-biological systems integration. In the main part of the paper, we discuss different storage aspects, mostly quantitative, such as: organization, functionality, data density, capacity, power consumption, redundancy, integrity, access time and data transfer rate. Numerous analogies between biological and electronic storage systems are pointed out. Finally, we will try to answer the question: which digital storage systems and media are the best equivalents for brain and DNA storage? The analysis of the storage systems resemblances and differences may facilitate to carry bioinformatics research.

Keywords

biocomputing; biology computing; content-addressable storage; data integrity; storage management; DNA storage; bioinformatics research; biological storage system; brain memory; data access time; data capacity; data density; data integrity; data organization; data transfer rate; digital storage system; electronic storage system; functionality; power consumption; quantitative comparison; redundancy; Bioinformatics; Biological information theory; Biology computing; DNA computing; Energy consumption; Holography; Humans; Microorganisms; Optical polymers; Prosthetics; Data storage systems and media; bioinformatics; integrity; redundancy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems, 2007. Bionetics 2007. 2nd

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-05-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-963-9799-05-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIMNICS.2007.4610074

Filename

4610074