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DNA has immense potential as an emerging data storage medium. The principle of DNA storage is the conversion and flow of digital information between binary code stream, quaternary base, and actual DNA fragments. This process will inevitably…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yun Qin , Fei Zhu , Bo Xi

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

Labeling of DNA molecules is a fundamental technique for DNA visualization and analysis. This process was mathematically modeled in [1], where the received sequence indicates the positions of the used labels. In this work, we develop error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Dganit Hanania , Eitan Yaakobi

This paper studies the problem of encoding messages into sequences which can be uniquely recovered from some noisy observations about their substrings. The observed reads comprise consecutive substrings with some given minimum overlap. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Hengjia Wei , Moshe Schwartz , Gennian Ge

DNA-based storage is an emerging technology that enables digital information to be archived in DNA molecules. This method enjoys major advantages over magnetic and optical storage solutions such as exceptional information density, enhanced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Daniella Bar-Lev , Itai Orr , Omer Sabary , Tuvi Etzion , Eitan Yaakobi

Motivation: DNA data is transcribed into single-stranded RNA, which folds into specific molecular structures. In this paper we pose the question to what extent sequence- and structure-information correlate. We view this correlation as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Christopher Barrett , Fenix W. Huang , Christian M. Reidys

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

Motivated by average-case trace reconstruction and coding for portable DNA-based storage systems, we initiate the study of \emph{coded trace reconstruction}, the design and analysis of high-rate efficiently encodable codes that can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Ryan Gabrys , Olgica Milenkovic , João Ribeiro

We propose generative neural network methods to generate DNA sequences and tune them to have desired properties. We present three approaches: creating synthetic DNA sequences using a generative adversarial network; a DNA-based variant of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Nathan Killoran , Leo J. Lee , Andrew Delong , David Duvenaud , Brendan J. Frey

A new family of codes, called clustering-correcting codes, is presented in this paper. This family of codes is motivated by the special structure of data that is stored in DNA-based storage systems. The data stored in these systems has the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Tal Shinkar , Eitan Yaakobi , Andreas Lenz , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

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

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

This work introduces a novel approach to constructing DNA codes from linear codes over a non-chain extension of $\mathbb{Z}_4$. We study $(\text{\textbaro},\mathfrak{d}, \gamma)$-constacyclic codes over the ring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Priyanka Sharma , Ashutosh Singh , Om Prakash

RNA co-transcriptionality, where RNA is spliced or folded during transcription from DNA templates, offers promising potential for molecular programming. It enables programmable folding of nano-scale RNA structures and has recently been…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Da-Jung Cho , Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas , Shinnosuke Seki , Max Wiedenhöft

The ability to store data in the DNA of a living organism has applications in a variety of areas including synthetic biology and watermarking of patented genetically-modified organisms. Data stored in this medium is subject to errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Siddharth Jain , Farzad Farnoud , Moshe Schwartz , Jehoshua Bruck

We describe properties and constructions of constraint-based codes for DNA-based data storage which account for the maximum repetition length and AT/GC balance. We present algorithms for computing the number of sequences with maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Kees A. Schouhamer Immink , Kui Cai

The paper investigates the computational problem of predicting RNA secondary structures. The general belief is that allowing pseudoknots makes the problem hard. Existing polynomial-time algorithms are heuristic algorithms with no…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Samuel Ieong , Ming-Yang Kao , Tak-Wah Lam , Wing-Kin Sung , Siu-Ming Yiu

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

By exploiting the exquisite selectivity of DNA hybridization, DNA-Coated Colloids (DNACCs) can be made to self-assemble in a wide variety of structures. The beauty of this system stems largely from its exceptional versatility and from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-29 Stefano Angioletti-Uberti , Bortolo M. Mognetti , Daan Frenkel

Protection of the sensitive content is crucial for extensive information sharing. We present a technique of information concealing, based on introduction and maintenance of families of repeats. Repeats in DNA constitute a basic obstacle for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-29 Lukas Kencl , Martin Loebl