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Yubin Ren¹, Yi Zhang², Yawei Liu²

¹Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.

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Researchers developed artificial nucleotides and encoding systems to enhance DNA data storage beyond the natural 2 bits per nucleotide limit. These systems improve coding efficiency and data reliability for high-density information storage.

Keywords:

DNA artificial nucleotides data storage encoding systems high-density data storage

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Area of Science:

Biotechnology
Information Science
Genomics

Background:

DNA data storage offers low energy consumption, high efficiency, and longevity.
Natural DNA is limited to 2 bits per nucleotide due to four bases.
Higher coding efficiency is needed for practical DNA data storage.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce artificial nucleotides for DNA data storage.
To develop high-reliability encoding systems for increased coding efficiency.
To overcome the 2 bits per nucleotide limitation of natural DNA.

Main Methods:

Developed two concatenated encoding systems: RaptorQ-Arithmetic-LZW-RS (RALR) and RaptorQ-Arithmetic-Base64-RS (RABR).
Designed systems to accommodate DNA synthesis and sequencing constraints.
Enabled correction of DNA sequence losses and errors, homopolymer reduction, and nucleotide content control.

Main Results:

RALR system achieved average coding efficiencies of 1.27, 1.61, and 1.85 bits per nucleotide for 4, 6, and 8 nucleotides, respectively.
RABR system achieved average coding efficiencies of 1.50, 2.00, and 2.35 bits per nucleotide for 4, 6, and 8 nucleotides, respectively.
Both systems demonstrated improved data reliability and reduced homopolymers.

Conclusions:

Artificial nucleotides and novel encoding systems significantly enhance DNA data storage density.
The developed systems offer versatility and tunability for high-reliability data storage.
This approach provides guidance for future high-density, reliable DNA information storage solutions.