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Reconstruction codes are generalizations of error-correcting codes that can correct errors by a given number of noisy reads. The study of such codes was initiated by Levenshtein in 2001 and developed recently due to applications in modern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zuo Ye , Xin Liu , Xiande Zhang , Gennian Ge

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

DNA is emerging as an increasingly attractive medium for data storage due to a number of important and unique advantages it offers, most notably the unprecedented durability and density. While the technology is evolving rapidly, the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Dehui Lin , Yasamin Tabatabaee , Yash Pote , Djordje Jevdjic

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 paper introduces a new family of reconstruction codes which is motivated by applications in DNA data storage and sequencing. In such applications, DNA strands are sequenced by reading some subset of their substrings. While previous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Daniella Bar-Lev , Sagi Marcovich , Eitan Yaakobi

In this paper, we study error-correcting codes for the storage of data in synthetic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). We investigate a storage model where data is represented by an unordered set of $M$ sequences, each of length $L$. Errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Andreas Lenz , Paul H. Siegel , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

We live in a period where bio-informatics is rapidly expanding, a significant quantity of genomic data has been produced as a result of the advancement of high-throughput genome sequencing technology, raising concerns about the costs…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-10 Mehedi Hasan Sarkar , Adnan Ferdous Ashrafi

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

We describe the first DNA-based storage architecture that enables random access to data blocks and rewriting of information stored at arbitrary locations within the blocks. The newly developed architecture overcomes drawbacks of existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 S. M. Hossein Tabatabaei Yazdi , Yongbo Yuan , Jian Ma , Huimin Zhao , Olgica Milenkovic

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

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

We consider the problem of correcting mass readout errors in information encoded in binary polymer strings. Our work builds on results for string reconstruction problems using composition multisets [Acharya et al., 2015] and the unique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Ryan Gabrys , Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , Olgica Milenkovic

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

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

Composite DNA is a recent method to increase the base alphabet size in DNA-based data storage.This paper models synthesizing and sequencing of composite DNA and introduces coding techniques to correct substitutions, losses of entire…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Frederik Walter , Omer Sabary , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

DNA synthesis is considered as one of the most expensive components in current DNA storage systems. In this paper, focusing on a common synthesis machine, which generates multiple DNA strands in parallel following a fixed supersequence,we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yajuan Liu , Tolga M. Duman

DNA Data storage has recently attracted much attention due to its durable preservation and extremely high information density (bits per gram) properties. In this work, we propose a hybrid coding strategy comprising of generalized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Yixin Wang , Li Deng , Md. Noor-A-Rahim , Erry Gunawan , Yong L. Guan , Zhi P. Shi , Chueh L. Poh

We consider the problem of storing and retrieving information from synthetic DNA media. The mathematical basis of the problem is the construction and design of sequences that may be discriminated based on their collection of substrings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Han Mao Kiah , Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

The coverage depth problem in DNA data storage is about minimizing the expected number of reads until all data is recovered. When they exist, MDS codes offer the best performance in this context. This paper focuses on the scenario where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Matteo Bertuzzo , Alberto Ravagnani , Eitan Yaakobi