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DNA exhibits remarkable potential as a data storage solution due to its impressive storage density and long-term stability, stemming from its inherent biomolecular structure. However, developing this novel medium comes with its own set of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Trung Hieu Le , Xavier Pic , Jeremy Mateos , Marc Antonini

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

In this paper, we consider the outer channel for DNA-based data storage. When transmitting over the outer channel, each DNA string is treated as a unit/symbol that would be either correctly received, or erased, or corrupted by uniformly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xuan He , Yi Ding , Kui Cai , Guanghui Song , Bin Dai , Xiaohu Tang

In this paper, we study error exponents for a concatataned coding based class of DNA storage codes in which the number of reads performed can be variable. That is, the decoder can sequentially perform reads and choose whether to output the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yan Hao Ling , Nir Weinberger , Jonathan Scarlett

Motivated by DNA-based data storage, we investigate a system where digital information is stored in an unordered set of several vectors over a finite alphabet. Each vector begins with a unique index that represents its position in the whole…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Andreas Lenz , Paul H. Siegel , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

We describe a strategy for constructing codes for DNA-based information storage by serial composition of weighted finite-state transducers. The resulting state machines can integrate correction of substitution errors; synchronization by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ian Holmes

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

This paper introduces a new solution to DNA storage that integrates all three steps of retrieval, namely clustering, reconstruction, and error correction. DNA-correcting codes are presented as a unique solution to the problem of ensuring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Avital Boruchovsky , Daniella Bar-Lev , Eitan Yaakobi

Due to its higher data density, longevity, energy efficiency, and ease of generating copies, DNA is considered a promising storage technology for satisfying future needs. However, a diverse set of errors including deletions, insertions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Yuanyuan Tang , Shuche Wang , Hao Lou , Ryan Gabrys , Farzad Farnoud

The main obstacles for the practical deployment of DNA-based data storage platforms are the prohibitively high cost of synthetic DNA and the large number of errors introduced during synthesis. In particular, synthetic DNA products contain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Chao Pan , S. M. Hossein Tabatabaei Yazdi , S Kasra Tabatabaei , Alvaro G. Hernandez , Charles Schroeder , Olgica Milenkovic

The DNA storage channel is considered, in which a codeword is comprised of $M$ unordered DNA molecules. At reading time, $N$ molecules are sampled with replacement, and then each molecule is sequenced. A coded-index concatenated-coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Nir Weinberger

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

Recently, DNA storage has surfaced as a promising alternative for data storage, presenting notable benefits in terms of storage capacity, cost-effectiveness in maintenance, and the capability for parallel replication. Mathematically, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yi Lu , Yun Ma , Chenghao Li , Xin Zhang , Guangxiang Si

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 trade-offs of DNA-based storage systems by introducing a new channel model, which we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Ilan Shomorony , Reinhard Heckel

The short lifespan of traditional data storage media, coupled with an exponential increase in storage demand, has made long-term archival a fundamental problem in the data storage industry and beyond. Consequently, researchers are looking…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Xavier Pic , Nimesh Pinnamaneni , Raja Appuswamy

DNA storage has matured from concept to practical stage, yet its integration with neural compression pipelines remains inefficient. Early DNA encoders applied redundancy-heavy constraint layers atop raw binary data - workable but primitive.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Cihan Ruan , Lebin Zhou , Rongduo Han , Linyi Han , Bingqing Zhao , Chenchen Zhu , Wei Jiang , Wei Wang , Nam Ling

We consider the problem of coding for the substring channel, in which information strings are observed only through their (multisets of) substrings. Due to existing DNA sequencing techniques and applications in DNA-based storage systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Nikita Polyanskii

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Krishna Gopal Benerjee , Sourav Deb , Manish K Gupta

The process of DNA-based data storage (DNA storage for short) can be mathematically modelled as a communication channel, termed DNA storage channel, whose inputs and outputs are sets of unordered sequences. To design error correcting codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Wentu Song , Kui Cai , Kees A. Schouhamer Immink

In the current era, DeoxyriboNucleic Acid (DNA) based data storage emerges as an intriguing approach, garnering substantial academic interest and investigation. This paper introduces a novel deep joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) scheme…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Wenfeng Wu , Luping Xiang , Qiang Liu , Kun Yang