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Low cost DNA data storage using photolithographic synthesis and advanced information reconstruction and error correction
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Due to its longevity and enormous information density, DNA is an attractive medium for archival storage. The current hamstring of DNA data storage systems—both in cost and speed—is synthesis. The key idea for breaking this bottleneck pursued in this work is to move beyond the low-error and expensive synthesis employed almost exclusively in today’s systems, towards cheaper, potentially faster, but high-error synthesis technologies. Here, we demonstrate a DNA storage system that relies on massively parallel light-directed synthesis, which is considerably cheaper than conventional solid-phase synthesis. However, this technology has a high sequence error rate when optimized for speed. We demonstrate that even in this high-error regime, reliable storage of information is possible, by developing a pipeline of algorithms for encoding and reconstruction of the information. In our experiments, we store a file containing sheet music of Mozart, and show perfect data recovery from low synthesis fidelity DNA.
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“With the use of photolithography to synthesize 10 000 copies of each oligo, with a nucleotide reagent cost of 100 USD/g and a logical density equal to 1 bit/nucleotide, the cost of 1 TB of data stored in DNA would be ∼10–2 USD, with a chemical yield of 100%.”
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“In 2020, Antkowiak et al. proposed that synthesis costs will drop to around 106 USD/TB (i.e., 2–3 orders of magnitude reduction) as a result of improved synthesis strategies, including large parallelization, optimization of reagents, and combination of nonvolatile DNA-based memories with logical operations”
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“Moreover, its logical density (1.75 bits/nt) is double that of Antkowiak et al.’s method (0.8 bits/nt) [20] with only about 2.5% reduction in error correction capability.”
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“Moreover, its logical density (1.75 bits/nt) is double that of Antkowiak et al.’s method (0.8 bits/nt) [20] with only about 2.5% reduction in error correction capability.”
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“Moreover, its logical density (1.75 bits/nt) is double that of Antkowiak et al.’s method (0.8 bits/nt) [20] with only about 2.5% reduction in error correction capability.”
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“Following the original introduction of the inner-outer encoding scheme, the vast majority of subsequent works used such a scheme for DNA data storage.”
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“However, both for low and large error rates, dominated by deletion errors, one also uses physical redundancy to recover the original information.”
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“For example, in Antkowiak et al.,42 the noisy sequences were first clustered by similarity, then the information on multiple erroneous copies was combined to construct a sequence with fewer errors. This was achieved by an alignment step within the clusters and subsequent majority voting.”
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“Thus, Antkowiak et al. proved that the combination of synthesis processes that produce lower quality DNA oligos (i.e., photolithographic synthesis) and appropriate error-correction codes allows a major cost decrease in DNA data archives.”
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“Even if this chemical yield is impossible to achieve in industrial conditions, DNA data storage will be competitive against tape storage (20 USD/TB cost) even at 0.1% chemical yield.”
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“In the latter case, the cost of photolithographic DNA storage would be ∼10 USD/TB, and synthesis conditions would be similar to the one used in surface chemistry (1000× reagent excess), which demonstrates that an optimization of chemical DNA synthesis processes is compatible with DNA data storage applications.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Antkowiak, P. L., Lietard, J., Darestani, M. Z., Somoza, M. M., Stark, W. J., Heckel, R., & Grass, R. N.
- Affiliations
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- University of Vienna (AT)
- Rice University (US)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Heckel, Reinhard
- Grass, Robert N.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2020-10-22
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5345-5345
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7582880
- OpenAlex
- W3093968171
- Cited by
- 173
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 27 · 2025: 44 · 2024: 41 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 4.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich) (submittedVersion)
- mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich) (submittedVersion)
- Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- ETH Zürich Research Collection (cc-by)
- Funders
- Rice University
- Austrian Science Fund (P27275, FWF P27275, P 30596, P27275 and P30596)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Theoretical Computer Science › DNA and Biological Computing
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Theoretical Computer Science › Algorithms and Data Compression
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Advanced Data Storage Technologies
- Keywords
- DNA data storage, information reconstruction, error correction, encoding algorithms, archival storage, solid-phase synthesis
- MeSH terms
- Algorithms, Base Sequence, DNA, Light, Monte Carlo Method, Gene Library, Information Storage and Retrieval, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Photochemical Processes, Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic
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