Portable and Error-Free DNA-Based Data Storage.

ABSTRACT: DNA-based data storage is an emerging nonvolatile memory technology of potentially unprecedented density, durability, and replication efficiency. The basic system implementation steps include synthesizing DNA strings that contain user information and subsequently retrieving them via high-throughput sequencing technologies. Existing architectures enable reading and writing but do not offer random-access and error-free data recovery from low-cost, portable devices, which is crucial for making the storage technology competitive with classical recorders. Here we show for the first time that a portable, random-access platform may be implemented in practice using nanopore sequencers. The novelty of our approach is to design an integrated processing pipeline that encodes data to avoid costly synt

SUBMITTER: Yazdi SMHT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5503945 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature