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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

Function-correcting codes were introduced in the work "Function-Correcting Codes" (FCC) by Lenz et al. 2023, which provides a graphical representation for the problem of constructing function-correcting codes. We use this function dependent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Rohit Premlal , B. Sundar Rajan

This paper studies the problem of constructing codes correcting deletions in arrays. Under this model, it is assumed that an $n\times n$ array can experience deletions of rows and columns. These deletion errors are referred to as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Rawad Bitar , Lorenz Welter , Ilia Smagloy , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

We introduce generalized function-correcting partition codes (GFCPCs) that simultaneously protect multiple partitions of the message space against different numbers of errors. Given partitions with respective distance requirements, a GFCPC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Charul Rajput , Mahak , V. Lalitha

In this work, we consider the problem of efficient decoding of codes from insertions and deletions. Most of the known efficient codes are codes with synchronization strings which allow one to reduce the problem of decoding insertions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Anisha Banerjee , Roni Con , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

Function-correcting codes (FCCs) protect specific function evaluations of a message against errors. This condition imposes a less stringent distance requirement than classical error-correcting codes (ECCs), allowing for reduced redundancy.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin

We consider the problem of correcting insertion and deletion errors in the $d$-dimensional space. This problem is well understood for vectors (one-dimensional space) and was recently studied for arrays (two-dimensional space). For vectors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Evagoras Stylianou , Lorenz Welter , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

DNA storage has emerged as a promising solution for large-scale and long-term data preservation. Among various error types, insertions are the most frequent errors occurring in DNA sequences, where the inserted symbol is often identical or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hengfeng Liu , Chunming Tang , Cuiling Fan

This work continues the study of linear error correcting codes against adversarial insertion deletion errors (insdel errors). Previously, the work of Cheng, Guruswami, Haeupler, and Li \cite{CGHL21} showed the existence of asymptotically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Kuan Cheng , Zhengzhong Jin , Xin Li , Zhide Wei , Yu Zheng

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

Nanopore sequencers are emerging as promising new platforms for high-throughput sequencing. As with other technologies, sequencer errors pose a major challenge for their effective use. In this paper, we present a novel information theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Jarek Duda , Wojciech Szpankowski , Ananth Grama

The deletion channel is known to be a notoriously diffcult channel to design error-correction codes for. In spite of this difficulty, there are some beautiful code constructions which give some intuition about the channel and about what…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Kedar Tatwawadi , Shubham Chandak

The problem of error-control in random linear network coding is considered. A ``noncoherent'' or ``channel oblivious'' model is assumed where neither transmitter nor receiver is assumed to have knowledge of the channel transfer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-03-25 Ralf Koetter , Frank Kschischang

In this paper, a new problem of transmitting information over the adversarial insertion-deletion channel with feedback is introduced. Suppose that the encoder transmits $n$ binary symbols one-by-one over a channel, in which some symbols can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Georg Maringer , Nikita Polyanskii , Ilya Vorobyev , Lorenz Welter

Insdel errors occur in communication systems caused by the loss of positional information of the message. Since the work by Guruswami and Wang, there have been some further investigations on the list decoding of insertion codes, deletion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Shu Liu , Ivan Tjuawinata , Chaoping Xing

Consider two or more strings $\mathbf{x}^1,\mathbf{x}^2,\ldots,$ that are concatenated to form $\mathbf{x}=\langle \mathbf{x}^1,\mathbf{x}^2,\ldots \rangle$. Suppose that up to $\delta$ deletions occur in each of the concatenated strings.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Serge Kas Hanna

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

This paper investigates the problem of correcting multiple criss-cross insertions and deletions in arrays. More precisely, we study the unique recovery of $n \times n$ arrays affected by $t$-criss-cross deletions defined as any combination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Lorenz Welter , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

The present paper mainly studies limits and constructions of insertion and deletion (insdel for short) codes. The paper can be divided into two parts. The first part focuses on various bounds, while the second part concentrates on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Shu Liu , Chaoping Xing

The Damerau-Levenshtein distance between two sequences is the minimum number of operations (deletions, insertions, substitutions, and adjacent transpositions) required to convert one sequence into another. Notwithstanding a long history of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zuo Ye , Gennian Ge