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In [1], the authors proposed a new model of DNA storage system that integrates all three steps of retrieval and introduced the concept of DNA-correcting codes, which guarantees that the output of the storage system can be decoded to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Huawei Wu

We describe a strategy for constructing codes for DNA-based information storage by serial composition of weighted finite-state transducers. The resulting state machines can integrate correction of substitution errors; synchronization by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ian Holmes

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

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

Current research on DNA storage usually focuses on the improvement of storage density by developing effective encoding and decoding schemes while lacking the consideration on the uncertainty in ultra-long-term data storage and retention.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Min Li , Jiashu Wu , Junbiao Dai , Qingshan Jiang , Qiang Qu , Xiaoluo Huang , Yang Wang

Distributed storage systems with replication are well known for storing large amount of data. A large number of replication is done in order to provide reliability. This makes the system expensive. Various methods have been proposed over…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Mit Sheth , Krishna Gopal Benerjee , Manish K. Gupta

We study the amount of reliable information that can be stored in a DNA-based storage system with noisy sequencing, where each codeword is composed of short DNA molecules. We analyze a concatenated coding scheme, where the outer code is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ran Tamir , Nir Weinberger , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

We study the problem of coded information retrieval for block-structured data, motivated by DNA-based storage systems where a database is partitioned into multiple files that must each be recoverable as an atomic unit. We initiate and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Daniella Bar-Lev

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

In this paper, we consider the outer channel for DNA-based data storage. When transmitting over the outer channel, each DNA string is treated as a unit/symbol that would be either correctly received, or erased, or corrupted by uniformly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xuan He , Yi Ding , Kui Cai , Guanghui Song , Bin Dai , Xiaohu Tang

In this paper, we study the Random Access Problem in DNA storage, which addresses the challenge of retrieving a specific information strand from a DNA-based storage system. In this framework, the data is represented by $k$ information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Avital Boruchovsky , Ohad Elishco , Ryan Gabrys , Anina Gruica , Itzhak Tamo , Eitan Yaakobi

Owing to its immense storage density and durability, DNA has emerged as a promising storage medium. However, due to technological constraints, data can only be written onto many short DNA molecules called data blocks that are stored in an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shubhransh Singhvi , Charchit Gupta , Avital Boruchovsky , Yuval Goldberg , Han Mao Kiah , Eitan Yaakobi

We examine the problem of creating an encoded distributed storage representation of a data object for a network of mobile storage nodes so as to achieve the optimal recovery delay. A source node creates a single data object and disseminates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Derek Leong , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

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

This paper studies the fundamental problem of data persistency for a general family of redundancy schemes in distributed storage systems, called replicated erasure codes. Namely, we analyze two strategies of replicated erasure codes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Roy Friedman , Rafał Kapelko , Karol Marchwicki

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

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

Regenerating codes enable trading off repair bandwidth for storage in distributed storage systems (DSS). Due to their distributed nature, these systems are intrinsically susceptible to attacks, and they may also be subject to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-10 O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath

We consider the design of regenerating codes for distributed storage systems that enjoy the property of local, exact and uncoded repair, i.e., (a) upon failure, a node can be regenerated by simply downloading packets from the surviving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-27 Oktay Olmez , Aditya Ramamoorthy

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