An improved Huffman coding method for archiving text, images, and music characters in DNA

BioTechniques

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 747-754

  Ailenberg, Menachem ^a,b   Rotstein, Ori D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA archiving; Information storage in DNA

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA; PRIMER DNA; DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENETIC CODE; HUFFMAN CODING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROCEDURES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77954057629     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000113218     Document Type: Article

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