Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

DNA punch cards for storing data on native DNA sequences via enzymatic nicking

  • S. Kasra Tabatabaei,
  • Boya Wang,
  • Nagendra Bala Murali Athreya,
  • Behnam Enghiad,
  • Alvaro Gonzalo Hernandez,
  • Christopher J. Fields,
  • Jean-Pierre Leburton,
  • David Soloveichik,
  • Huimin Zhao,
  • Olgica Milenkovic

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15588-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Current synthetic DNA-based data storage systems have high recording costs, read-write latency and error-rates that make them uncompetitive compared to traditional digital storage. The authors use nicks in native DNA to encode data in parallel and create access sites for in-memory computations.