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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

DNA, with remarkable properties of high density, durability, and replicability, is one of the most appealing storage media. Emerging DNA storage technologies use composite DNA letters, where information is represented by probability…

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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

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Ilan Shomorony , Reinhard Heckel

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…

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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

In this paper, we consider a concatenated coding based class of DNA storage codes in which the selected molecules are constrained to be taken from an ``inner'' codebook associated with the sequencing channel. This codebook is used in a…

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Nanopore sequencing is an emerging new technology for sequencing DNA, which can read long fragments of DNA (~50,000 bases) in contrast to most current short-read sequencing technologies which can only read hundreds of bases. While nanopore…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Wei Mao , Suhas Diggavi , Sreeram Kannan

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

We study the amount of reliable information that can be stored in a DNA-based storage system composed of short DNA molecules. In this regime, Shomorony and Heckel (2022) put forward a conjecture on the scaling of the number of information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ran Tamir , Nir Weinberger , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

Error-correcting codes over sets, with applications to DNA storage, are studied. The DNA-storage channel receives a set of sequences, and produces a corrupted version of the set, including sequence loss, symbol substitution, symbol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Hengjia Wei , Moshe Schwartz

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

Noisy shuffling channels capture the main characteristics of DNA storage systems where distinct segments of data are received out of order, after being corrupted by substitution errors. For realistic schemes with short-length segments,…

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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…

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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,…

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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

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…

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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

Motivated by average-case trace reconstruction and coding for portable DNA-based storage systems, we initiate the study of \emph{coded trace reconstruction}, the design and analysis of high-rate efficiently encodable codes that can be…

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