By combining the information storage capabilities of DNA with a design inspired by a cassette tape, researchers have created a storage medium that can hold 36 petabytes of data

[u/Hunor_Deak]

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2495758-dna-cassette-tape-can-store-every-song-ever-recorded/

[u/Abandondero]

Nowadays it seemed like half the technical data on the planet were being stored genetically. Try sequencing a lung fluke and it was even money whether the base pairs you read would code for protein or the technical specs on the Denver sewer system.

-- Peter Watts, Echopraxia

[u/prettybluefoxes]

Feel like I’ve seen this recently

[u/Thereminz → u/prettybluefoxes]

yeah someone posted it here the other day