Fig. 4: Number of dNAM origami required to recover the message.

The mean number of unique dNAM origami correctly decoded for randomly selected subsamples of decoded binary strings are shown. The analysis was broken out by the number of errors corrected for each origami, three examples are plotted (1, 4, and 9). Black filled circles depict the mean results for nine error corrections, which is the ‘maximum allowable number of errors’ parameter used in the decoding algorithm for all other analysis reported here. The horizontal lines indicate the probability of recovering the message with different numbers of unique droplets. With fourteen or more droplets, the message should always be recovered (thick green line, and above indicates 100% chance of recovery) and with nine or fewer droplets the message will never be recovered (thick red line and below indicates 0% chance of recovery). Mean values for three experiments are shown. Error bars indicate ±SD. Individual data points are plotted behind as smaller gray symbols.