R&D: Bird-Eye View on DNA Storage Simulators

arXiv has published an article written by Sanket Doshi, Mihir Gohel, and Manish K. Gupta, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat 382007, India.

Abstract: “In the current world due to the huge demand for storage, DNA-based storage solution sounds quite promising because of their longevity, low power consumption, and high capacity. However in real life storing data in the form of DNA is quite expensive, and challenging. Therefore researchers and developers develop such kind of software that helps simulate real-life DNA storage without worrying about the cost. This paper aims to review some of the software that performs DNA storage simulations in different domains. The paper also explains the core concepts such as synthesis, sequencing, clustering, reconstruction, GC window, K-mer window, etc and some overview on existing algorithms. Further, we present 3 different softwares on the basis of domain, implementation techniques, and customer/commercial usability.“