DNA assembly for nanopore data storage readout

Abstract

Synthetic DNA is becoming an attractive substrate for digital data storage due to its density, durability, and relevance in biological research. A major challenge in making DNA data storage a reality is that reading DNA back into data using sequencing by synthesis remains a laborious, slow and expensive process. Here, we demonstrate successful decoding of 1.67 megabytes of information stored in short fragments of synthetic DNA using a portable nanopore sequencing platform. We design and validate an assembly strategy for DNA storage that drastically increases the throughput of nanopore sequencing. Importantly, this assembly strategy is generalizable to any application that requires nanopore sequencing of small DNA amplicons.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jul 03, 2019
Source ID
10.1038/s41467-019-10978-4

Entities

People

  • Georg Seelig
  • Karin Strauss
  • Konstantin Makarychev
  • Luis Ceze
  • Miklós Z. Rácz
  • Randolph Lopez
  • Sergey Yekhanin
  • Siena Dumas Ang
  • Yuan-Jyue Chen

Organizations

  • Microsoft
  • United States Department of Defense

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Biology

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Molecular Genetics
  • Systems Analysis and Design