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Article3 Biotech2019

A high storage density strategy for digital information based on synthetic DNA.

Shufang Zhang, Beibei Huang, Xiangming Song, Tao Zhang, Hanjie Wang, Yuhong Liu

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Article in 3 Biotech, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Shufang Zhang1School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China.
Beibei Huang1School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China.
Xiangming Song1School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China.
Tao Zhang1School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China.
Hanjie Wang2School of Life Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072 China.
Yuhong Liu3Computer Science and Engineering Department, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053 USA.
Tianjin University · CNSanta Clara University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA has been recognized as a promising natural medium for information storage. The expensive DNA synthesis process makes it an important challenge to utilize DNA nucleotides optimally and increase the storage density. Thus, a novel scheme is proposed for the storage of digital information in synthetic DNA with high storage density and perfect error correction capability. The proposed strategy introduces quaternary Huffman coding to compress the binary stream of an original file before it is converted into a DNA sequence. The proposed quaternary Huffman coding is based on the statistical properties of the source and can gain a very high compression ratio for files with a non-uniform probability distribution of the source. Consequently, the amount of information that each base can store increases, and the storage density is also improved. In addition, quaternary Hamming code with low redundancy is proposed to correct errors occurring in the synthesis and sequencing. We have successfully converted a total of 5.2 KB of files into 3934 bits in DNA bases. The results of biological experiment indicate that the storage density of the proposed scheme is higher than that of state-of-the-art schemes.

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DNA information storageQuaternary Huffman codeStorage densitySynthetic DNA

Identifiers

PMID31497460
PMCPMC6708515
OpenAlexW2969749561

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