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Labeling of DNA molecules is a fundamental technique for DNA visualization and analysis. This process was mathematically modeled in [1], where the received sequence indicates the positions of the used labels. In this work, we develop error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Dganit Hanania , Eitan Yaakobi

Synthetic DNA approaches 227.5 exabytes per gram of storage density with stability over millennial timescales. Realising this capacity requires error-correction codes that recover data from substantial synthesis and sequencing errors.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 James L. Banal

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

DNA based storage systems received attention by many researchers. This includes archival and re-writable random access DNA based storage systems. In this work, we have developed an efficient technique to encode the data into DNA sequence by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Dixita Limbachiya , Vijay Dhameliya , Madhav Khakhar , Manish K Gupta

Storing digital data in synthetic DNA faces challenges in ensuring data reliability in the presence of edit errors--deletions, insertions, and substitutions--that occur randomly during various stages of the storage process. Current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Serge Kas Hanna

In [1], the authors proposed a new model of DNA storage system that integrates all three steps of retrieval and introduced the concept of DNA-correcting codes, which guarantees that the output of the storage system can be decoded to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Huawei Wu

We propose coding techniques that limit the length of homopolymers runs, ensure the GC-content constraint, and are capable of correcting a single edit error in strands of nucleotides in DNA-based data storage systems. In particular, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Tuan Thanh Nguyen , Kui Cai , Kees A. Schouhamer Immink , Han Mao Kiah

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

A new family of codes, called clustering-correcting codes, is presented in this paper. This family of codes is motivated by the special structure of data that is stored in DNA-based storage systems. The data stored in these systems has the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Tal Shinkar , Eitan Yaakobi , Andreas Lenz , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Encoding digital information into DNA sequences offers an attractive potential solution for storing rapidly growing data under the information age and the rise of artificial intelligence. However, practical implementations of DNA storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Zimu Li , Bingyi Liu , Lei Zhao , Qian Zhang , Yang Liu , Jun Liu , Ke Ke , Huating Kong , Xiaolei Zuo , Chunhai Fan , Fei Wang

DNA data storage is rapidly emerging as a promising solution for long-term data archiving, largely due to its exceptional durability. However, the synthesis of DNA strands remains a significant bottleneck in terms of cost and speed. To…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Parv Agarwal , Nimesh Pinnamaneni , Thomas Heinis

DNA storage systems face significant challenges, including insertion, deletion, and substitution (IDS) errors. Therefore, designing effective synchronization codes, i.e., codes capable of correcting IDS errors, is essential for DNA storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Javad Haghighat , Tolga M. Duman

In this paper, we study achievable rates of concatenated coding schemes over a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) storage channel. Our channel model incorporates the main features of DNA-based data storage. First, information is stored on many,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Andreas Lenz , Lorenz Welter , Sven Puchinger

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 is an attractive medium for digital data storage. When data is stored on DNA, errors occur, which makes error-correcting coding techniques critical for reliable DNA data storage. To reduce the errors, a common technique is to include…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Franziska Weindel , Andreas L. Gimpel , Robert N. Grass , Reinhard Heckel

The increasing demand for data storage has prompted the exploration of new techniques, with molecular data storage being a promising alternative. In this work, we develop coding schemes for a new storage paradigm that can be represented as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Boaz Moav , Ryan Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi

With the rapid increase of available digital data, DNA storage is identified as a storage media with high density and capability of long-term preservation, especially for archival storage systems. However, the encoding density (i.e., how…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Bingzhe Li , Li Ou , David Du

The yearly global production of data is growing exponentially, outpacing the capacity of existing storage media, such as tape and disk, and surpassing our ability to store it. DNA storage - the representation of arbitrary information as…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-04 Thomas Heinis , Roman Sokolovskii , Jamie J. Alnasir

As the global need for large-scale data storage is rising exponentially, existing storage technologies are approaching their theoretical and functional limits in terms of density and energy consumption, making DNA based storage a potential…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yotam Nahum , Eyar Ben-Tolila , Leon Anavy

Synchronization errors, such as insertions and deletions, present a fundamental challenge in DNA-based data storage systems, arising from both synthesis and sequencing noise. These channels are often modeled as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ziv Aharoni , Henry D. Pfister