R&D: Rotational Coding Based on Blocking Strategy for DNA Storage

IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience has published an article written by Ziniu Mu, School of Software Engineering, Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Intelligent Computing, Ministry of Education, Dalian University, Dalian, China, Ben Cao, School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, Penghao Wang, Bin Wang, and Qiang Zhang, School of Software Engineering, Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Intelligent Computing, Ministry of Education, Dalian University, Dalian, China.

Abstract: “The data volume of global information has grown exponentially in recent years, but the development of silicon-based memory has entered a bottleneck period. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) storage is drawing attention owing to its advantages of high storage density, long storage time, and easy maintenance. However, the base utilization and information density of existing DNA storage methods are insufficient. Therefore, this study proposes a rotational coding based on blocking strategy (RBS) for encoding digital information such as text and images in DNA data storage. This strategy satisfies multiple constraints and produces low error rates in synthesis and sequencing. To illustrate the superiority of the proposed strategy, it was compared and analyzed with existing strategies in terms of entropy value change, free energy size, and Hamming distance. The experimental results show that the proposed strategy has higher information storage density and better coding quality in DNA storage, so it will improve the efficiency, practicality, and stability of DNA storage.“