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Composite DNA is a recent novel method to increase the information capacity of DNA-based data storage above the theoretical limit of 2 bits/symbol. In this method, every composite symbol does not store a single DNA nucleotide but a mixture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Tuan Thanh Nguyen , Chen Wang , Kui Cai , Yiwei Zhang , Zohar Yakhini

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Wenkai Zhang , Zhiying Wang

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

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

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

The emerging field of DNA storage employs strands of DNA bases (A/T/C/G) as a storage medium for digital information to enable massive density and durability. The DNA storage pipeline includes: (1) encoding the raw data into sequences of…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-28 Hadas Abraham , Barak Gahtan , Adir Kobovich , Orian Leitersdorf , Alex M. Bronstein , Eitan Yaakobi

We provide an overview of current approaches to DNA-based storage system design and accompanying synthesis, sequencing and editing methods. We also introduce and analyze a suite of new constrained coding schemes for both archival and random…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-07-08 S. M. Hossein Tabatabaei Yazdi , Han Mao Kiah , Eva Ruiz Garcia , Jian Ma , Huimin Zhao , Olgica Milenkovic

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

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

Synthetic DNA can in principle be used for the archival storage of arbitrary data. Because errors are introduced during DNA synthesis, storage, and sequencing, an error-correcting code (ECC) is necessary for error-free recovery of the data.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-05 William H. Press , John A. Hawkins

We consider error-correcting coding for DNA-based storage. We model the DNA storage channel as a multi-draw IDS channel where the input data is chunked into $M$ short DNA strands, which are copied a random number of times, and the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Lorenz Welter , Issam Maarouf , Andreas Lenz , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

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 errors occurring in DNA-based storage are correlated in nature, which is a direct consequence of the synthesis and sequencing processes. In this paper, we consider the memory-$k$ nanopore channel model recently introduced by Hamoum et…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Issam Maarouf , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Racetrack memory is a new technology which utilizes magnetic domains along a nanoscopic wire in order to obtain extremely high storage density. In racetrack memory, each magnetic domain can store a single bit of information, which can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Yeow Meng Chee , Han Mao Kiah , Alexander Vardy , Van Khu Vu , Eitan Yaakobi

While achieving a compression ratio of 2.0 bits/base, the new algorithm codes non-N bases in fixed length. It dramatically reduces the time of coding and decoding than previous DNA compression algorithms and some universal compression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Jie Liu , Sheng Bao , Zhiqiang Jing , Shi Chen

Distributed storage systems are known to be susceptible to long tails in response time. In modern online storage systems such as Bing, Facebook, and Amazon, the long tails of the service latency are of particular concern. with 99.9th…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Vaneet Aggarwal , Abubakr O. Al-Abbasi , Jingxian Fan , Tian Lan

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 tradeoffs of DNA-based storage systems under a simple model, motivated by current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Reinhard Heckel , Ilan Shomorony , Kannan Ramchandran , David N. C. Tse

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

Due to its higher data density, longevity, energy efficiency, and ease of generating copies, DNA is considered a promising storage technology for satisfying future needs. However, a diverse set of errors including deletions, insertions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Yuanyuan Tang , Shuche Wang , Hao Lou , Ryan Gabrys , Farzad Farnoud

The exponentially increasing demand for data storage has been facing more and more challenges during the past years. The energy costs that it represents are also increasing, and the availability of the storage hardware is not able to follow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Xavier Pic , Marc Antonini