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Main Authors: Srinivasavaradhan, Sundara Rajan, Gopi, Sivakanth, Pfister, Henry D., Yekhanin, Sergey
Format: Preprint
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06440
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author Srinivasavaradhan, Sundara Rajan
Gopi, Sivakanth
Pfister, Henry D.
Yekhanin, Sergey
author_facet Srinivasavaradhan, Sundara Rajan
Gopi, Sivakanth
Pfister, Henry D.
Yekhanin, Sergey
contents Sequencing a DNA strand, as part of the read process in DNA storage, produces multiple noisy copies which can be combined to produce better estimates of the original strand; this is called trace reconstruction. One can reduce the error rate further by introducing redundancy in the write sequence and this is called coded trace reconstruction. In this paper, we model the DNA storage channel as an insertion-deletion-substitution (IDS) channel and design both encoding schemes and low-complexity decoding algorithms for coded trace reconstruction. We introduce Trellis BMA, a new reconstruction algorithm whose complexity is linear in the number of traces, and compare its performance to previous algorithms. Our results show that it reduces the error rate on both simulated and experimental data. The performance comparisons in this paper are based on a new dataset of traces that will be publicly released with the paper. Our hope is that this dataset will enable research progress by allowing objective comparisons between candidate algorithms.
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spellingShingle Trellis BMA: Coded Trace Reconstruction on IDS Channels for DNA Storage
Srinivasavaradhan, Sundara Rajan
Gopi, Sivakanth
Pfister, Henry D.
Yekhanin, Sergey
Information Theory
Sequencing a DNA strand, as part of the read process in DNA storage, produces multiple noisy copies which can be combined to produce better estimates of the original strand; this is called trace reconstruction. One can reduce the error rate further by introducing redundancy in the write sequence and this is called coded trace reconstruction. In this paper, we model the DNA storage channel as an insertion-deletion-substitution (IDS) channel and design both encoding schemes and low-complexity decoding algorithms for coded trace reconstruction. We introduce Trellis BMA, a new reconstruction algorithm whose complexity is linear in the number of traces, and compare its performance to previous algorithms. Our results show that it reduces the error rate on both simulated and experimental data. The performance comparisons in this paper are based on a new dataset of traces that will be publicly released with the paper. Our hope is that this dataset will enable research progress by allowing objective comparisons between candidate algorithms.
title Trellis BMA: Coded Trace Reconstruction on IDS Channels for DNA Storage
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06440