This leads to the industrialization of the DNA Data storage technology, a condition for mass deployment of real commercial solutions.

DNA storage has always attracted a lot of interest due of its potential density and longevity - and researchers have long been exploring ways to encode digital information into DNA strands that can be stored and later read back using sequencing technology.

One of the leaders in this field, French startup Biomemory, recently announced it has acquired the assets of Catalog Technologies, another firm working on DNA-based data storage, giving the former access to Catalog’s printing, reading, and computing technologies, along with a large portfolio of patents.

Both companies rely on mapping digital data to biosafe DNA blocks instead of synthesizing DNA base by base. This can improve read speeds and reduce error rates, while also opening the door to search and computing functions directly within DNA data structures.