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jdsjds | 10 years ago | on: Scientists store digital images in DNA and retrieve them perfectly

hey there, i have two questions on your earlier work.

the assumed context is sending/reading a message via DNA is equivalent to de novo sequencing with 100% accuracy.

error-correcting via 4x overlap:

how many insertions, deletions, substitutions can it correct for? are some combinations harder to fix than others? for example, three insertions much worse than one deletion, or 5 substitutions, etc.

information storage / information blocks:

i'm guessing the 100bp segments have to do with the limits of hardware sequencing, but what limits the overall message size to 739Kb?

thanks very much for your thoughts!

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