Abstract
Synthetic DNA has been proposed as a storage medium for digital information due to its high theoretical storage density and anticipated long storage horizons. However, under all ambient storage conditions, DNA undergoes a slow chemical decay process resulting in nicked (broken) DNA strands, and the information stored in these strands is no longer readable. In this work we design an enzymatic repair procedure, which is applicable to the DNA pool prior to readout and can partially reverse the damage. Through a chemical understanding of the decay process, an overhang at the 3’ end of the damaged site is identified as obstructive to repair via the base excision-repair (BER) mechanism. The obstruction can be removed via the enzyme apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease I (APE1), thereby enabling repair of hydrolytically damaged DNA via Bst polymerase and Taq ligase. Simulations of damage and repair reveal the benefit of the enzymatic repair step for DNA data storage, especially when data is stored in DNA at high storage densities (=low physical redundancy) and for long time durations.
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