Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Molecular-level similarity search brings computing to DNA data storage

  • Callista Bee,
  • Yuan-Jyue Chen,
  • Melissa Queen,
  • David Ward,
  • Xiaomeng Liu,
  • Lee Organick,
  • Georg Seelig,
  • Karin Strauss,
  • Luis Ceze

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24991-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Storage technology based on DNA is emerging as an information dense and durable medium. Here the authors use machine learning-based encoding and hybridization probes to execute similarity searches in a DNA database.