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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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Şeyma Bodur , Stefano Lia , Hiram H. López , Rati Ludhani , Alberto Ravagnani , Lisa Seccia

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 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

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

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

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

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

Synthesis of DNA molecules offers unprecedented advances in storage technology. Yet, the microscopic world in which these molecules reside induces error patterns that are fundamentally different from their digital counterparts. Hence, to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Netanel Raviv , Moshe Schwartz , Eitan Yaakobi

DNA-based data storage has been attracting significant attention due to its extremely high data storage density, low power consumption, and long duration compared to conventional data storage media. Despite the recent advancements in DNA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yi Ding , Xuan He , Tuan Thanh Nguyen , Wentu Song , Zohar Yakhini , Eitan Yaakobi , Linqiang Pan , Xiaohu Tang , Kui Cai

Molecular data systems have the potential to store information at dramatically higher density than existing electronic media. Some of the first experimental demonstrations of this idea have used DNA, but nature also uses a wide diversity of…

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

Most DNA sequencing technologies are based on the shotgun paradigm: many short reads are obtained from random unknown locations in the DNA sequence. A fundamental question, studied in arXiv:1203.6233, is what read length and coverage depth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Aditya Narayan Ravi , Alireza Vahid , Ilan Shomorony

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

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yan Hao Ling , Jonathan Scarlett

Ever since deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was considered as a next-generation data-storage medium, lots of research efforts have been made to correct errors occurred during the synthesis, storage, and sequencing processes using error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Jaeho Jeong , Hosung Park , Hee-Youl Kwak , Jong-Seon No , Hahyeon Jeon , Jeong Wook Lee , Jae-Won Kim

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 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

As DNA data storage moves closer to practical deployment, minimizing sequencing coverage depth is essential to reduce both operational costs and retrieval latency. This paper addresses the recently studied Random Access Problem, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chen Wang , Eitan Yaakobi

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