A new way will help researchers to store reams of data up to 2,000 years. Researchers have devised a technique to use DNA's double helix structure as a filing system, which could allow them store loads of data for many years.

Data acquisition will become easier because of the structure of the data's storage in relation to DNA's framework.

Researcher, Robert Grass, said monks in medieval times in Europe had written books to transmit information for the future, and some of those books are still available. "A little after the discovery of the double helix architecture of DNA, people figured out that the coding language of nature is very similar to the binary language we use in computers", Grass added.

A, C, T and G are the four nucleotides he referred the binary language in terms of DNA. Owing to DNA's inherent durability and capacity to cache such large amounts of data, it is considered as a storage model by researchers.

About five terabytes of information with a lifespan of around 50 years could be currently stored in a current external hard drive the size of a book. However, more than 300,000 terabytes with lifespan lasting for generations could be stored in a DNA-framework hard drive.

A recent experiment conducted by researchers saw encoding of DNA with 83 kilobytes of text from the Swiss Federal Charter from the year 1291 and the Method of Archimedes from the 10th century.