Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38461245›Full record

ArticleBMC genomics2024

DNA-QLC: an efficient and reliable image encoding scheme for DNA storage.

Yanfen Zheng, Ben Cao, Xiaokang Zhang, Shuang Cui, Bin Wang, Qiang Zhang

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in BMC genomics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. DNA storage: The future direction for medical cold data storage.Synthetic and systems biotechnology · 2025
    Review
  5. INNSE: Invertible neural network-based DNA image storage with self-correction encoding.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
    Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Yanfen ZhengSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Lingshui Street, DalianLiaoning, 116024, China.
Ben CaoSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Lingshui Street, DalianLiaoning, 116024, China.
Xiaokang ZhangSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Lingshui Street, DalianLiaoning, 116024, China.
Shuang CuiSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Lingshui Street, DalianLiaoning, 116024, China.
Bin WangThe Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Intelligent Computing, Ministry of Education, School of Software Engineering, Dalian University, Xuefu Street, DalianLiaoning, 116622, China.
Qiang ZhangSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Lingshui Street, DalianLiaoning, 116024, China. zhangq@dlut.edu.cn.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDNA storage has the advantages of large capacity, long-term stability, and low power consumption relative to other storage mediums, making it a promising new storage medium for multimedia information such as images. However, DNA storage has a low coding density and weak error correction ability.

resultsTo achieve more efficient DNA storage image reconstruction, we propose DNA-QLC (QRes-VAE and Levenshtein code (LC)), which uses the quantized ResNet VAE (QRes-VAE) model and LC for image compression and DNA sequence error correction, thus improving both the coding density and error correction ability. Experimental results show that the DNA-QLC encoding method can not only obtain DNA sequences that meet the combinatorial constraints, but also have a net information density that is 2.4 times higher than DNA Fountain. Furthermore, at a higher error rate (2%), DNA-QLC achieved image reconstruction with an SSIM value of 0.917.

conclusionsThe results indicate that the DNA-QLC encoding scheme guarantees the efficiency and reliability of the DNA storage system and improves the application potential of DNA storage for multimedia information such as images.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsData CompressionDNAImage Processing, Computer-AssistedReproducibility of ResultsDNACombinatorial constraintImage reconstructionLevenshtein codeNet information density

Identifiers

PMID38461245
PMCPMC10925009

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.