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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

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

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

In this work, we study linear error-correcting codes against adversarial insertion-deletion (indel) errors. While most constructions for the indel model are nonlinear, linear codes offer compact representations, efficient encoding, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Roee Gross , Roni Con , Eitan Yaakobi

Sequencing a DNA strand, as part of the read process in DNA storage, produces multiple noisy copies which can be combined to produce better estimates of the original strand; this is called trace reconstruction. One can reduce the error rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Sundara Rajan Srinivasavaradhan , Sivakanth Gopi , Henry D. Pfister , Sergey Yekhanin

Encoding data as a set of unordered strings is receiving great attention as it captures one of the basic features of DNA storage systems. However, the challenge of constructing optimal redundancy codes for this channel remained elusive. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jin Sima , Netanel Raviv , Jehoshua Bruck

Due to the redundant nature of DNA synthesis and sequencing technologies, a basic model for a DNA storage system is a multi-draw "shuffling-sampling" channel. In this model, a random number of noisy copies of each sequence is observed at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Kel Levick , Reinhard Heckel , Ilan Shomorony

We present many new results related to reliable (interactive) communication over insertion-deletion channels. Synchronization errors, such as insertions and deletions, strictly generalize the usual symbol corruption errors and are much…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Bernhard Haeupler , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi , Ellen Vitercik

DNA emerges as a promising medium for the exponential growth of digital data due to its density and durability. This study extends recent research by addressing the \emph{coverage depth problem} in practical scenarios, exploring optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Hadas Abraham , Rayn Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi

With advancements in telecommunications, data transmission over increasingly harsher channels that produce synchronisation errors is inevitable. Coding schemes for such channels are available through techniques such as the Davey-MacKay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Shamin Achari , Ling Cheng

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…

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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

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

Motivated by applications in DNA-based storage, we introduce the new problem of code design in the Damerau metric. The Damerau metric is a generalization of the Levenshtein distance which, in addition to deletions, insertions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Ryan Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi , Olgica Milenkovic

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 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

A method for encoding information in DNA sequences is described. The method is based on the precision-resolution framework, and is aimed to work in conjunction with a recently suggested terminator-free template independent DNA synthesis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Siddharth Jain , Farzad Farnoud , Moshe Schwartz , Jehoshua Bruck

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

Erasure codes are an efficient means of storing data across a network in comparison to data replication, as they tend to reduce the amount of data stored in the network and offer increased resilience in the presence of node failures. The…

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