Fig. 5: Simulating damage and repair for high-density storage regimes.
From: Information decay and enzymatic information recovery for DNA data storage
For a given physical redundancy and storage horizon (expressed in half-lives of DNA), the data give the fraction of unique sequences lost from the pool during storage (dark blue lines). This loss of sequences has to be compensated by the logical redundancy of an error-correcting code. With DNA repair enabled, a fraction of the lost sequences can be recovered, and less logical redundancy is required. The benefits of DNA repair is the largest in applications with a low physical redundancy and long storage durations, which are target domains for DNA data storage.
