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Motivated by polymer-based data-storage platforms that use chains of binary synthetic polymers as the recording media and read the content via tandem mass spectrometers, we propose a new family of codes that allows for unique string…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , Ryan Gabrys , Olgica Milenkovic

Motivated by the sequence reconstruction problem initiated by Levenshtein, reconstruction codes were introduced by Cai \emph{et al}. to combat errors when a fixed number of noisy channels are available. The central problem on this topic is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Rongsheng Wu , Xiande Zhang

Recent experiments have demonstrated the feasibility of storing digital information in macromolecules such as DNA and protein. However, the DNA storage channel is prone to errors such as deletions, insertions, and substitutions. During the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Aryan Abbasian , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri Kenari

Motivated by DNA-based storage applications, we study the problem of reconstructing a coded sequence from multiple traces. We consider the model where the traces are outputs of independent deletion channels, where each channel deletes each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Serge Kas Hanna

In the trace reconstruction problem, one seeks to reconstruct a binary string $s$ from a collection of traces, each of which is obtained by passing $s$ through a deletion channel. It is known that $\exp(\tilde O(n^{1/5}))$ traces suffice to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Kayvon Mazooji , Ilan Shomorony

DNA storage has emerged as a promising solution for large-scale and long-term data preservation. Among various error types, insertions are the most frequent errors occurring in DNA sequences, where the inserted symbol is often identical or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hengfeng Liu , Chunming Tang , Cuiling Fan

Motivated by mass-spectrometry protein sequencing, we consider a simply-stated problem of reconstructing a string from the multiset of its substring compositions. We show that all strings of length 7, one less than a prime, or one less than…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-03-12 Jayadev Acharya , Hirakendu Das , Olgica Milenkovic , Alon Orlitsky , Shengjun Pan

Motivated by applications in polymer-based data storage, we study the problem of reconstructing a string from part of its composition multiset. We give a full description of the structure of the strings that cannot be uniquely reconstructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Zuo Ye , Ohad Elishco

DNA data storage systems encode digital data into DNA strands, enabling dense and durable storage. Efficient data retrieval depends on coverage depth, a key performance metric. We study the random access coverage depth problem and focus on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Şeyma Bodur , Stefano Lia , Hiram H. López , Rati Ludhani , Alberto Ravagnani , Lisa Seccia

We consider error-correcting coding for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-based storage using nanopore sequencing. We model the DNA storage channel as a sampling noise channel where the input data is chunked into $M$ short DNA strands, which are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Lorenz Welter , Roman Sokolovskii , Thomas Heinis , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Motivated by polymer-based data-storage platforms that use chains of binary synthetic polymers as the recording media and read the content via tandem mass spectrometers, we propose a new family of codes that allows for both unique string…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , Ryan Gabrys , Olgica Milenkovic

The sequence reconstruction problem, introduced by Levenshtein in 2001, considers a scenario where the sender transmits a codeword from some codebook, and the receiver obtains $N$ noisy outputs of the codeword. We study the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shubhransh Singhvi , Roni Con , Han Mao Kiah , Eitan Yaakobi

The trace reconstruction problem studies the number of noisy samples needed to recover an unknown string $\boldsymbol{x}\in\{0,1\}^n$ with high probability, where the samples are independently obtained by passing $\boldsymbol{x}$ through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Jin Sima , Jehoshua Bruck

The sequence reconstruction problem for insertion/deletion channels has attracted significant attention owing to their applications recently in some emerging data storage systems, such as racetrack memories, DNA-based data storage. Our goal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Van Long Phuoc Pham , Yeow Meng Chee , Kui Cai , Van Khu Vu

We develop a two-part reconstruction framework for signal recovery in compressed sensing (CS), where a fast algorithm is applied to provide partial recovery in Part 1, and a CS algorithm is applied to complete the residual problem in Part…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Yanting Ma , Dror Baron , Deanna Needell

As a possible implementation of data storage using DNA, multiple strands of DNA are stored in a liquid container so that, in the future, they can be read by an array of DNA readers in parallel. These readers will sample the strands with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Hsin-Po Wang , Venkatesan Guruswami

Multi-segment reconstruction (MSR) problem consists of recovering a signal from noisy segments with unknown positions of the observation windows. One example arises in DNA sequence assembly, which is typically solved by matching short reads…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Mona Zehni , Minh N. Do , Zhizhen Zhao

The problem called "String reconstruction from substrings" is a mathematical model of sequencing by hybridization that plays an important role in DNA sequencing. In this problem, we are given a blackbox oracle holding an unknown string…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Kazuo Iwama , Junichi Teruyama , Shuntaro Tsuyama

Sequencing a DNA strand, as part of the read process in DNA storage, produces multiple noisy copies which can be combined to produce better estimates of the original strand; this is called trace reconstruction. One can reduce the error rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Sundara Rajan Srinivasavaradhan , Sivakanth Gopi , Henry D. Pfister , Sergey Yekhanin

Because of its high data density and longevity, DNA is emerging as a promising candidate for satisfying increasing data storage needs. Compared to conventional storage media, however, data stored in DNA is subject to a wider range of errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Yuanyuan Tang , Farzad Farnoud