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Technology progress in DNA sequencing boosts the genomic database growth at faster and faster rate. Compression, accompanied with random access capabilities, is the key to maintain those huge amounts of data. In this paper we present an…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2011-03-14 Szymon Grabowski , Sebastian Deorowicz

The problem of storing large amounts of information safely for a long period of time has become essential. One of the most promising new data storage mediums are the polymer-based data storage systems, like the DNA-storage system. These…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Ville Junnila , Tero Laihonen , Tuomo Lehtilä

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

The sequence-dependent elasticity of double-helical DNA on a nm length scale can be captured by the rigid base-pair model, whose strains are the relative position and orientation of adjacent base-pairs. Corresponding elastic potentials have…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-05-29 Nils B. Becker , Ralf Everaers

This paper introduces a new solution to DNA storage that integrates all three steps of retrieval, namely clustering, reconstruction, and error correction. DNA-correcting codes are presented as a unique solution to the problem of ensuring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Avital Boruchovsky , Daniella Bar-Lev , Eitan Yaakobi

The DNA cryptography is a new and very promising direction in cryptography research. DNA can be used in cryptography for storing and transmitting the information, as well as for computation. Although in its primitive stage, DNA cryptography…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-07 Kang Ning

We investigate the fundamental limits of the recently proposed random access coverage depth problem for DNA data storage. Under this paradigm, it is assumed that the user information consists of $k$ information strands, which are encoded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Anina Gruica , Daniella Bar-Lev , Alberto Ravagnani , Eitan Yaakobi

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

When an individual's DNA is sequenced, sensitive medical information becomes available to the sequencing laboratory. A recently proposed way to hide an individual's genetic information is to mix in DNA samples of other individuals. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kayvon Mazooji , Roy Dong , Ilan Shomorony

We propose a novel coding scheme for DNA-based storage systems, called the shift-interleave (SI) coding, designed to correct insertion, deletion, and substitution (IDS) errors, as well as sequence losses. The SI coding scheme employs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Ryo Shibata , Haruhiko Kaneko

Secure communication is the cornerstone of modern infrastructures, yet achieving unconditional security -resistant to any computational attack- remains a fundamental challenge. The One-Time Pad (OTP), proven by Shannon to offer perfect…

We consider a new family of codes, termed asymmetric Lee distance codes, that arise in the design and implementation of DNA-based storage systems and systems with parallel string transmission protocols. The codewords are defined over a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Ryan Gabrys , Han Mao Kiah , Olgica Milenkovic

Large pools of synthetic DNA molecules have been recently used to reliably store significant volumes of digital data. While DNA as a storage medium has enormous potential because of its high storage density, its practical use is currently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Konstantin Makarychev , Miklos Z. Racz , Cyrus Rashtchian , Sergey Yekhanin

We investigate the problem of maintaining an encoded distributed storage system when some nodes contain adversarial errors. Using the error-correction capabilities that are built into the existing redundancy of the system, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Theodoros K. Dikaliotis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

The paper describes an algorithm to compute a consensus sequence from a set of DNA sequences of approximatively identical length generated by 3rd sequencing generation technologies. Its purpose targets DNA storage and is guided by specific…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Dominique Lavenier

DNA sequencing technology has advanced to a point where storage is becoming the central bottleneck in the acquisition and mining of more data. Large amounts of data are vital for genomics research, and generic compression tools, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Bobbie Chern , Idoia Ochoa , Alexandros Manolakos , Albert No , Kartik Venkat , Tsachy Weissman

Steganography embeds secret messages in seemingly innocuous carriers for covert communication under surveillance. Current Provably Secure Steganography (PSS) schemes based on language models can guarantee computational indistinguishability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Kaiyi Pang , Minhao Bai

DNA sequencing is the basic workhorse of modern day biology and medicine. Shotgun sequencing is the dominant technique used: many randomly located short fragments called reads are extracted from the DNA sequence, and these reads are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-15 Abolfazl Motahari , Guy Bresler , David Tse

Given a sequence composed of a limit number of characters, we try to "read" it as a "text". This involves to segment the sequence into "words". The difficulty is to distinguish good segmentation from enormous number of random ones.Aiming at…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Bin Wang

DNA codes have garnered significant interest due to their utilization in digital media storage, cryptography, and DNA computing. In this paper, we first extend the results of constructing reversible group codes \cite{Cengellenmis} and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Guodong Wang , Hongwei Liu , Xueyan Chen