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DNA storage has emerged as an important area of research. The reliability of DNA storage system depends on designing the DNA strings (called DNA codes) that are sufficiently dissimilar. In this work, we introduce DNA codes that satisfy a…

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Composite DNA is a recent novel method to increase the information capacity of DNA-based data storage above the theoretical limit of 2 bits/symbol. In this method, every composite symbol does not store a single DNA nucleotide but a mixture…

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In DNA-based data storage, DNA codes with biochemical constraints and error correction are designed to protect data reliability. Single-stranded DNA sequences with secondary structure avoidance (SSA) help to avoid undesirable secondary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Shu Liu , Chaoping Xing , Yaqian Zhang

Owing to its longevity and enormous information density, DNA, the molecule encoding biological information, has emerged as a promising archival storage medium. However, due to technological constraints, data can only be written onto many…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Reinhard Heckel , Gediminas Mikutis , Robert N. Grass

Living in the age of the digital media explosion, the amount of data that is being stored increases dramatically. However, even if existing storage systems suggest efficiency in capacity, they are lacking in durability. Hard disks, flash,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-08 Melpomeni Dimopoulou , Marc Antonini , Pascal Barbry , Raja Appuswamy

DNA data storage offers a high-density, long-term alternative to traditional storage systems, addressing the exponential growth of digital data. Composite DNA extends this paradigm by leveraging mixtures of nucleotides to increase storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Busra Tegin , Tolga M Duman

Current research on DNA storage usually focuses on the improvement of storage density by developing effective encoding and decoding schemes while lacking the consideration on the uncertainty in ultra-long-term data storage and retention.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Min Li , Jiashu Wu , Junbiao Dai , Qingshan Jiang , Qiang Qu , Xiaoluo Huang , Yang Wang

With the rapid increase of available digital data, DNA storage is identified as a storage media with high density and capability of long-term preservation, especially for archival storage systems. However, the encoding density (i.e., how…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Bingzhe Li , Li Ou , David Du

DNA storage is a promising archival data storage solution to today's big data problem. A DNA storage system encodes and stores digital data with synthetic DNA sequences and decodes DNA sequences back to digital data via sequencing. For…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yixun Wei , Wenlong Wang , Huibing Dong , Bingzhe Li , David Du

DNA is an attractive candidate for data storage. Its millennial durability and nanometer scale offer exceptional data density and longevity. Its relevance to medical applications also drives advances in DNA-related biotechnology. To protect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yu-Ting Lin , Hsin-Po Wang , Venkatesan Guruswami

Over the past years, the ever-growing trend on data storage demand, more specifically for "cold" data (i.e. rarely accessed), has motivated research for alternative systems of data storage. Because of its biochemical characteristics,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Xavier Pic , Eva Gil San Antonio , Melpomeni Dimopoulou , Marc Antonini

DNA codes have many applications, such as in data storage, DNA computing, etc. Good DNA codes have large sizes and satisfy some certain constraints. In this paper, we present a new construction method for reversible DNA codes. We show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xueyan Chen , Whan-Hyuk Choi , Hongwei Liu

DNA has emerged as a promising alternative for long-term data storage due to its high capacity, durability, and low-energy potential. However, storing data in DNA presents several challenges. First, it requires complex and costly…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-20 Sara Al Sayyed , Aline Roumy , Thomas Maugey

This study explores the self-synchronization problem in DNA coding, specifically addressing single-deletion errors without using delimiters between codewords. We aim to identify the beginning of each codeword without using delimiters,…

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DNA has immense potential as an emerging data storage medium. The principle of DNA storage is the conversion and flow of digital information between binary code stream, quaternary base, and actual DNA fragments. This process will inevitably…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yun Qin , Fei Zhu , Bo Xi

DNA emerges as a promising medium for the exponential growth of digital data due to its density and durability. This study extends recent research by addressing the \emph{coverage depth problem} in practical scenarios, exploring optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Hadas Abraham , Rayn Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi

DNA as a data storage medium has several advantages, including far greater data density compared to electronic media. We propose that schemes for data storage in the DNA of living organisms may benefit from studying the reconstruction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Moshe Schwartz

This paper presents a novel DNA sequences alignment method based on inverted index. Now most large scale information retrieval system are all use inverted index as the basic data structure. But its application in DNA sequence alignment is…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2013-07-02 Wang Liang , Zhao KaiYong

Due to its longevity and enormous information density, DNA is an attractive medium for archival storage. In this work, we study the fundamental limits and tradeoffs of DNA-based storage systems under a simple model, motivated by current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Reinhard Heckel , Ilan Shomorony , Kannan Ramchandran , David N. C. Tse

Due to its longevity and enormous information density, DNA is an attractive medium for archival data storage. Thanks to rapid technological advances, DNA storage is becoming practically feasible, as demonstrated by a number of experimental…

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