TechRepublic June 18, 2020
Dan Patterson

Hard drives, flash drives, genetic drives? Hyunjun Park, co-founder and CEO of Catalog, explains how human DNA can be used to safeguard data.

Dan Patterson, senior producer for CNET and CBS News, spoke with Hyunjun Park, co-founder and CEO of Catalog, a company working on DNA data storage. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.

Hyunjun Park: For the purposes of this discussion, data is any kind of information that we generate in the world. But, for storing purposes, for us, it’s really a series of ones and zeros. It’s just a long number of ones and zeros, binary data that you would normally use a computer to store with things like hard drives and flash drives....

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