Data storage, secure by design and powered by DNA
How Biomemory synthesizes, encodes, and stores data in DNA, and why the medium is worth industrializing.
Selection and encryption
The customer identifies the key material or record in scope, which is encrypted before leaving their environment and subsequently encoded into synthetic DNA held offline, in-jurisdiction, and under managed custody, physically separated from the systems it protects. Standard operational recovery is prevented, ensuring that restoration of the information occurs exclusively through a measured, authorized process.
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(3D enzymatic printing)
Enzyme :
low energy, fast assembly
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Biomaster's mission
find & locate the right file
Read & Connect
Sequencing & error
correction / detection
Rebuild file
Our platform protects organizations from data exposure
How we make the DNA
Biomemory is producing biologically key ingredients, DNA blocks and enzymes to synthesis its DNA media rather than purchasing them from third parties, one half of the vertical integration that spans the full stack from molecular biology to enterprise software.
Controlling the DNA and enzyme supply chains allows reducing writing costs and facilitates faster optimizations. We are also using aqueous reactions to write our DNA media as part of data centers integration.
The DNA blocks have been designed to prohibit the synthesis of sequences of concern during DNA synthesis, thus facilitating biosecurity compliance. As consequence, these DNA blocks can only be used to encode data.
How we store it
Biomemory stores encoded DNA across two platforms: In our Paris research facilities and our DNA production facility in Boston.
DNA is a million times denser than current data storage media.
As a storage medium, DNA holds on the order of one million times more data per unit volume than physical data storage, a property of the molecule rather than a Biomemory product specification, and it is why DNA is worth industrializing.
Longevity and isolation follow from how the medium is used: data held offline at rest, separated from the active control plane and removed from the network-reachable attack surface, designed for multi-decade readability, with qualification in progress.
Where it sits
DNA is not a replacement for traditional tape libraries or cloud architectures; rather, it sits beneath them as the ultimate preservation and recovery layer for critical data. The true value driving its industrialization is sheer storage density—a physical footprint so compact that it redefines long-term data retention. In memory architectures, DNA operates not as bulk storage, but as a dense, immutable layer for small, symbolic data assets. When applied to security, it serves as an uncompromisable vault for key material, directly surpassing conventional safeguarded key components with physical separation and biological permanence.
Economics
The economic argument for DNA Data Storage is fundamentally structural rather than a simple metric of upfront savings. Once synthesized, DNA requires zero active power to preserve data at rest, entirely eliminating the continuous refresh cycles and power demands inherent to magnetic tape or disk media. Furthermore, its consumables leverage biological production processes rather than complex electronic manufacturing. By moving beyond conventional operational costs, DNA shifts long-term archive economics from an ongoing maintenance liability to a static, ultra-dense vault for permanent preservation.
Biosecurity
Biomemory DNA is enzymatically synthesized from biological DNA building blocks, and engineered exclusively for digital information storage and applications. Its sequence architecture incorporates biosecurity safeguards designed to prevent biological functionality and exclude sequences encoding functional proteins, viral genomes, or other potentially hazardous biological elements.
Integration
Scality is our first software platform partner. A global leader in data infrastructure software for AI-era storage at scale, Scality builds software-defined S3 object storage designed to span and optimize across multiple storage media, which is precisely the control plane DNA archives need to reach production.
Defensibility
Biomemory’s end-to-end process, from molecular biology to enterprise software, is patented
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DNA Data Storage translates binary digital content into synthetic DNA strands. Binary data is converted into a molecular code, corresponding DNA strands are then synthesized, physically stored into a container, and later read, using available DNA-reading technologies. Biomemory industrializes this process into rackable storage servers designed for data center environments.
As data volumes scale, traditional architectures face structural physical, economic, and environmental limits. DNA introduces a new storage tier designed for long-term scalability. DNA has been selected as the molecule of choice for cold storage applications, for many combined reasons: very stable molecule, especially in its double-helix form; broad knowledge base and availability of massive characterization data; strong global trust in stability, reliability and longevity, in line with cold storage IT requirements; availability of DNA reading commercial equipment, currently and as long as human DNA shall be read; ability to replicate DNA with a very low error rate, including using living organisms (e.g. bacterias) for low-cost high-volume production.
DNA is inherently stable over extremely long periods. Milennia can be reached under very cold and hermetic special conditions. However, for IT-related applications, a retention and readability assurance of 50, 100 or 150 years is good enough. Biomemory is aligning with these market requirements and the enterprise-grade resilience levels, to offer the best cost & data accessibility trade-off. Along the specified life-time, DNA is stable and does not need to be refreshed or remastered, unlike other magnetic or electronics data storage media.
Yes. Biomemory uses fully synthetic, biosecure DNA blocks designed to prevent biological interaction, and compliant with the most stringent biosecurity regulation or recommendation. Our DNA, by design, cannot express proteins or interact with living systems. Biosafety is embedded by design at the molecular level, and validated by independent third party compliance testing
DNA enables structurally lower long-term total cost of ownership. Ultra-low energy consumption at rest, elimination of frequent hardware refresh cycles, and biologically manufactured consumables reduce both operational and capital expenditures (CapEx) over time. Biomemory has developed a roadmap towards a very low operational cost (OpEx) with low-cost consumables and high-level of automation, along with affordable CapEx compatible enterprise budget, and cloud-providers profitability.
DNA Data Storage is optimized for high-value, long-term, cold data. Typical use cases include protection, regulated datasets, AI training data sets, compliance records, and critical backups requiring durability and integrity over decades.
Data storage is the primary application target of Biomemory, but cybersecurity augmentation is also strong a focus. As the technology matures, molecular systems will also offer unique properties for parallelism and programmability. Over time, this opens pathways toward molecular-scale search and compute capabilities, extending performance beyond traditional microelectronic architectures.