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To increase the information capacity of DNA storage, composite DNA letters were introduced. We propose a novel channel model for composite DNA in which composite sequences are decomposed into ordered standard non-composite sequences. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Besart Dollma , Ohad Elishco , Eitan Yaakobi

The DNA cryptography is a new and very promising direction in cryptography research. DNA can be used in cryptography for storing and transmitting the information, as well as for computation. Although in its primitive stage, DNA cryptography…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-07 Kang Ning

In this paper we study error-correcting codes for the storage of data in synthetic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). We investigate a storage model where a data set is represented by an unordered set of $M$ sequences, each of length $L$. Errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Andreas Lenz , Paul H. Siegel , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

The biggest challenge when using DNA as a storage medium is maintaining its stability. The relative occurrence of Guanine (G) and Cytosine (C) is essential for the longevity of DNA. In addition to that, reverse complementary base pairs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-03 NallappaBhavithran G , Selvakumar R

Modern biological science produces vast amounts of genomic sequence data. This is fuelling the need for efficient algorithms for sequence compression and analysis. Data compression and the associated techniques coming from information…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-09-05 Heba Afify , Muhammad Islam , Manal Abdel Wahed

We describe properties and constructions of constraint-based codes for DNA-based data storage which account for the maximum repetition length and AT/GC balance. We present algorithms for computing the number of sequences with maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Kees A. Schouhamer Immink , Kui Cai

DNA-based data storage systems face practical challenges due to the high cost of DNA synthesis. A strategy to address the problem entails encoding data via topological modifications of the DNA sugar-phosphate backbone. The DNA Punchcards…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jin Sima , Chao Pan , S. Kasra Tabatabaei , Alvaro G. Hernandez , Charles M. Schroeder , Olgica Milenkovic

In this paper, we formally define and analyze the class of noisy permutation channels. The noisy permutation channel model constitutes a standard discrete memoryless channel (DMC) followed by an independent random permutation that reorders…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Anuran Makur

Particularly motivated by DNA storage channels, we consider channels with synchronization errors modeled as insertions and deletions, along with substitutions. We focus on the case where the synchronization error process has memory and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ruslan Morozov , Tolga M. Duman

Charge transfer can take place along double helical DNA over distances as long as 30 nanometers. However, given the active role of the thermal environment surrounding charge carriers in DNA, physical mechanisms driving the transfer process…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Roman Korol , Dvira Segal

DNA is a promising storage medium, but its stability and occurrence of Indel errors pose a significant challenge. The relative occurrence of Guanine(G) and Cytosine(C) in DNA is crucial for its longevity, and reverse complementary base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-15 NallappaBhavithran G , Selvakumar R

Genetic information is stored in a linear sequence of base-pairs; however, thermal fluctuations and complex DNA conformations such as folds and loops make it challenging to order genomic material for in vitro analysis. In this work, we…

In this paper, we propose a novel iterative encoding algorithm for DNA storage to satisfy both the GC balance and run-length constraints using a greedy algorithm. DNA strands with run-length more than three and the GC balance ratio far from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Seong-Joon Park , Yongwoo Lee , Jong-Seon No

Motivation: Next Generation Sequencing technologies revolutionized many fields in biology by enabling the fast and cheap sequencing of large amounts of genomic data. The ever increasing sequencing capacities enabled by current sequencing…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2012-07-24 Himanshu Asnani , Dinesh Bharadia , Mainak Chowdhury , Idoia Ochoa , Itai Sharon , Tsachy Weissman

Large pools of synthetic DNA molecules have been recently used to reliably store significant volumes of digital data. While DNA as a storage medium has enormous potential because of its high storage density, its practical use is currently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Konstantin Makarychev , Miklos Z. Racz , Cyrus Rashtchian , Sergey Yekhanin

DNA Data storage has recently attracted much attention due to its durable preservation and extremely high information density (bits per gram) properties. In this work, we propose a hybrid coding strategy comprising of generalized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Yixin Wang , Li Deng , Md. Noor-A-Rahim , Erry Gunawan , Yong L. Guan , Zhi P. Shi , Chueh L. Poh

DNA based storage systems received attention by many researchers. This includes archival and re-writable random access DNA based storage systems. In this work, we have developed an efficient technique to encode the data into DNA sequence by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Dixita Limbachiya , Vijay Dhameliya , Madhav Khakhar , Manish K Gupta

In shotgun sequencing, the input string (typically, a long DNA sequence composed of nucleotide bases) is sequenced as multiple overlapping fragments of much shorter lengths (called \textit{reads}). Modelling the shotgun sequencing pipeline…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Hrishi Narayanan , Prasad Krishnan , Nita Parekh

Deep neural networks have incredible capacity and expressibility, and can seemingly memorize any training set. This introduces a problem when training in the presence of noisy labels, as the noisy examples cannot be distinguished from clean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Daniel Shwartz , Uri Stern , Daphna Weinshall

In this paper, we examine the problem of information storage on memristors affected by resistive drift noise under energy constraints. We introduce a novel, fundamental trade-off between the information lifetime of memristive states and the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Waleed El-Geresy , Christos Papavassiliou , Deniz Gündüz