BioCode: two biologically compatible Algorithms for embedding data in non-coding and coding regions of DNA.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In recent times, the application of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has diversified with the emergence of fields such as DNA computing and DNA data embedding. DNA data embedding, also known as DNA watermarking or DNA steganography, aims to develop robust algorithms for encoding non-genetic information in DNA. Inherently DNA is a digital medium whereby the nucleotide bases act as digital symbols, a fact which underpins all bioinformatics techniques, and which also makes trivial information encoding using DNA straightforward. However, the situation is more complex in methods which aim at embedding information in the genomes of living organisms. DNA is susceptible to mutations, which act as a noisy channel from the point of view of information encoded using DNA. This means that

SUBMITTER: Haughton D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3698116 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature