MO1.R6.1

Coding for Composite DNA to Correct Substitutions, Strand Losses, and Deletions

Frederik Walter, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Omer Sabary, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Eitan Yaakobi, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Session:
Coding in Biology 1

Track:
17: Information and Coding in Biology

Location:
Sigma/Delta

Presentation Time:
Mon, 8 Jul, 10:05 - 10:25

Session Chair:
Eitan Yaakobi, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
Abstract
Composite DNA is a recent method to increase the base alphabet size in DNA-based data storage. This paper models synthesizing and sequencing of composite DNA and introduces coding techniques to correct substitutions, losses of entire strands, and symbol deletion errors. Non-asymptotic upper bounds on the size of codes with t occurrences of these error types are derived. Explicit constructions are presented which can achieve the bounds.
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