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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

Data storage in DNA is developing as a possible solution for archival digital data. Recently, to further increase the potential capacity of DNA-based data storage systems, the combinatorial composite DNA synthesis method was suggested. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Omer Sabary , Inbal Preuss , Ryan Gabrys , Zohar Yakhini , Leon Anavy , Eitan Yaakobi

Motivated by applications in DNA storage, we study a setting in which strings are affected by tandem-duplication errors. In particular, we look at two settings: disjoint tandem-duplication errors, and equal-length tandem-duplication errors.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Wenjun Yu , Moshe Schwartz

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

In this work, we investigate a challenging problem, which has been considered to be an important criterion in designing codewords for DNA computing purposes, namely secondary structure avoidance in single-stranded DNA molecules. In short,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Tuan Thanh Nguyen , Kui Cai , Han Mao Kiah , Duc Tu Dao , Kees A. Schouhamer Immink

We study segmented burst-deletion channels motivated by the observation that synchronization errors commonly occur in a bursty manner in real-world settings. In this channel model, transmitted sequences are implicitly divided into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yajuan Liu , Tolga M. Duman

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

A (tandem) duplication of length $ k $ is an insertion of an exact copy of a substring of length $ k $ next to its original position. This and related types of impairments are of relevance in modeling communication in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mladen Kovačević , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Nanopore sequencing, superior to other sequencing technologies for DNA storage in multiple aspects, has recently attracted considerable attention. Its high error rates, however, demand thorough research on practical and efficient coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Anisha Banerjee , Yonatan Yehezkeally , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

In the recent years, DNA has emerged as a potentially viable storage technology. DNA synthesis, which refers to the task of writing the data into DNA, is perhaps the most costly part of existing storage systems. Accordingly, this high cost…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Ohad Elishco , Wasim Huleihel

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

We study codes that can correct backtracking errors during nanopore sequencing. In this channel, a sequence of length $n$ over an alphabet of size $q$ is being read by a sliding window of length $\ell$, where from each window we obtain only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Wenjun Yu , Zuo Ye , Moshe Schwartz

Recently, codes for correcting a burst of errors have attracted significant attention. One of the most important reasons is that bursts of errors occur in certain emerging techniques, such as DNA storage. In this paper, we investigate a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Yubo Sun , Ziyang Lu , Yiwei Zhang , Gennian Ge

In recent years, the emergence of DNA storage systems has led to a widespread focus on the research of codes correcting insertions, deletions, and classic substitutions. During the initial investigation, Levenshtein discovered the VT codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yuhang Pi , Zhifang Zhang

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

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

We consider the problem of assembling a sequence based on a collection of its substrings observed through a noisy channel. The mathematical basis of the problem is the construction and design of sequences that may be discriminated based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Han Mao Kiah , Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

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,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Whan-Hyuk Choi

Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) codes check if a codeword is correctly received. This paper presents an algorithm to design CRC codes that are optimized for the code-specific error behavior of a specified feedforward convolutional code. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Chung-Yu Lou , Babak Daneshrad , Richard D. Wesel

We consider the problem of designing low-redundancy codes in settings where one must correct deletions in conjunction with substitutions or adjacent transpositions; a combination of errors that is usually observed in DNA-based data storage.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Ryan Gabrys , Venkatesan Guruswami , João Ribeiro , Ke Wu