Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

DNA assembly for nanopore data storage readout

  • Randolph Lopez,
  • Yuan-Jyue Chen,
  • Siena Dumas Ang,
  • Sergey Yekhanin,
  • Konstantin Makarychev,
  • Miklos Z Racz,
  • Georg Seelig,
  • Karin Strauss,
  • Luis Ceze

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10978-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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A major bottleneck in using DNA as a data storage medium is the slowness of sequencing. Here the authors decode 1.67 megabytes of information using a portable nanopore platform with an assembly strategy for increased throughput.