“It is tempting to write the history of technology through products: the wheel; the microscope; the airplane; the Internet. But it is more illuminating to write the history of technology through transitions: linear motion to circular motion; visual space to subvisual space; motion on land to motion on air; physical connectivity to virtual connectivity” - Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History
At BioCompute we are spearheading the transition towards a biomolecule-powered storage and processing infrastructure.
Why make this transition?
We are running out of space to store the data we are producing
Our current data storage systems (aka data centers) consume massive amounts of energy and water - this is a threat to our planet
Why Now?
1. The increasing adoption of AI leading to an exponential increase in the amount of data we need to store and process
2. The cost of genome sequencing is falling exponentially
3. The advent of nanopore sequencers, lab-on-a-chip microfluidics platforms and CRISPR-based DNA editing
This once-in-a-generation confluence of ground-shattering technologies and associated phenomenon, makes now the right time to make the transition towards BioCompute.
What are you building?
We are building an end-to-end integrated microfluidics chip that enables us to write, read and store data in bacterial DNA. This is what we envision it to look like, with micro meter dimensions (which is similar to the size of our cells).
Sounds cool, but what are you reallly up to (like now)?
We are developing our proof-of-concept by leveraging CRISPR-based DNA editing to figure out if we can store and retrieve digital data that way. We are starting our first set of experiments in June this year at the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (cCAMP) in Bangalore, India. We will be sharing more updates about these experiments and their results when they happen, stay tuned!
Our Supporters
gradCapital
Emergent Ventures
Sustainability Mafia
CRISPRBITS
Our Team
Anagha Rajesh - Founder & Chief Disruptor
Ajay Pavan Raghavan - Genomics Engineer
(we are growing our team, check out open roles here)
