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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

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

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

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 is emerging as an increasingly attractive medium for data storage due to a number of important and unique advantages it offers, most notably the unprecedented durability and density. While the technology is evolving rapidly, the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Dehui Lin , Yasamin Tabatabaee , Yash Pote , Djordje Jevdjic

Exponential increase of data has motivated advances of data storage technologies. As a promising storage media, DeoxyriboNucleic Acid (DNA) storage provides a much higher data density and superior durability, compared with state-of-the-art…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Luping Xiang , Qiang Liu , Sirong Chen , Kang Yan , Wenfeng Wu , Kun Yang

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

In this paper, we propose a novel iterative encoding algorithm for DNA storage to satisfy both the GC balance and run-length constraints using a greedy algorithm. DNA strands with run-length more than three and the GC balance ratio far from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Seong-Joon Park , Yongwoo Lee , Jong-Seon No

We consider the problem of assembling a sequence based on a collection of its substrings observed through a noisy channel. The mathematical basis of the problem is the construction and design of sequences that may be discriminated based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Han Mao Kiah , Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

A number of methods have been proposed over the last decade for encoding information using deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), giving rise to the emerging area of DNA data embedding. Since a DNA sequence is conceptually equivalent to a sequence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Félix Balado

DNA has many valuable characteristics that make it suitable for a long-term storage medium, in particular its durability and high information density. DNA can be stored safely for hundreds of years with virtually no degradation, in contrast…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-31 Jamie J. Alnasir , Thomas Heinis , Louis Carteron

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

DNA as a data storage medium has several advantages, including far greater data density compared to electronic media. We propose that schemes for data storage in the DNA of living organisms may benefit from studying the reconstruction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Moshe Schwartz

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 synthesis is considered as one of the most expensive components in current DNA storage systems. In this paper, focusing on a common synthesis machine, which generates multiple DNA strands in parallel following a fixed supersequence,we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yajuan Liu , Tolga M. Duman

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

We consider error-correcting coding for DNA-based storage. We model the DNA storage channel as a multi-draw IDS channel where the input data is chunked into $M$ short DNA strands, which are copied a random number of times, and the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Lorenz Welter , Issam Maarouf , Andreas Lenz , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

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

The synthesis of DNA strands remains the most costly part of the DNA storage system. Thus, to make DNA storage system more practical, the time and materials used in the synthesis process have to be optimized. We consider the most common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Johan Chrisnata , Han Mao Kiah , Van Long Phuoc Pham

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