Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) as a storage medium with high density and long-term preservation properties can satisfy the requirement of archival storage for rapidly increased digital volume. The read and write processes of DNA storage are error-prone. Images widely used in social media have the properties of fault tolerance which are well fitted to the DNA storage. However, prior work simply investigated the feasibility of DNA storage storing different types of data and simply store images in DNA storage, which did not fully investigate the fault-tolerant potential of images in DNA storage systems. In this talk, we introduce new image-based DNA systems, which can efficiently store images in DNA storage with improved DNA storage robustness and density. First, a new DNA architecture is proposed to fit JPEG-based images and improve the image's robustness in DNA storage. Moreover, barriers inserted in DNA sequences efficiently prevent error propagation in images of DNA storage. Also, to improve the overall encoding density, a hybrid lossy and lossless encoding scheme is used. Finally, the experimental results indicate that the proposed schemes achieve higher robustness to the injected errors than other DNA storage codes. Also, the schemes improve the encoding density of DNA storage and make it much close to the ideal case.
Approximate DNA Storage with High Robustness and Density for Images
- DNA storage background
- New schemes for improving density and robustness of approximate DNA storage for images
- Potential future research directions for DNA storage
Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) as a storage medium with high density and long-term preservation properties can satisfy the requirement of archival storage for rapidly increased digital volume. The read and write processes of DNA storage are error-prone. Images widely used in social media have the properties of fault tolerance which are well fitted to the DNA storage. However, prior work simply investigated the feasibility of DNA storage storing different types of data and simply store images in DNA storage, which did not fully investigate the fault-tolerant potential of images in DNA storage systems. In this talk, we introduce new image-based DNA systems, which can efficiently store images in DNA storage with improved DNA storage robustness and density. First, a new DNA architecture is proposed to fit JPEG-based images and improve the image's robustness in DNA storage. Moreover, barriers inserted in DNA sequences efficiently prevent error propagation in images of DNA storage. Also, to improve the overall encoding density, a hybrid lossy and lossless encoding scheme is used. Finally, the experimental results indicate that the proposed schemes achieve higher robustness to the injected errors than other DNA storage codes. Also, the schemes improve the encoding density of DNA storage and make it much close to the ideal case.
- DNA storage background
- New schemes for improving density and robustness of approximate DNA storage for images
- Potential future research directions for DNA storage
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DNA lacks many key attributes found in other traditional storage media types including locality and addressability.
- Joel ChristnerDell Inc.
Users of DNA as a digital data storage medium must have confidence that they can reliably recover their stored data, and to understand the competing capabilities and claims of codecs, readers, writ
Synthetic DNA-based data storage has been on the rise as a candidate for Data Storage due to its longer shelf life and higher data density.
- Bruno Marinaro VeronaInstitute for Technological Research
A new error correction code for DNA data storage is presented.
There are several well-known advantages of using synthetic DNA for cold-data storage, such as higher density, reduced energy consumption, and durability compared with the standard storage mediums u
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The demand for data storage continues to grow exponentially with the overall data storage temperature cooling down with most data becoming cold after one month and subsequently infrequently accesse
The demand for data storage continues to grow exponentially with the overall data storage temperature cooling down with most data becoming cold after one month and subsequently infrequently accesse
Cold data holds significant value for regulatory compliance, audits, legal necessities, and disaster recovery, even though it's not frequently accessed.
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