Multi-state data storage leaving binary behind Stepping 'beyond binary' to store data in more than just 0s and 1s Date: October 12, 2020 Source: ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy ...

In their paper, “Length-based Encoding of Binary Data in DNA,” which was published by the American Chemical Society, the researchers showed that it is possible to store 750 megabytes of data ...

As a result, instead of data being stored via two-state binary code, it can be stored via a three-state ternary code in which the absence of an indent is a 0, a 0.3- to 1.0-nanometer-deep indent ...