Hi all,
Our first Information Theory and Applications seminar for 2024 will take place on Monday, January 15 at 10:00, in room A500.
The speaker this week is Yonatan Yehezkeally, who will tell us about problems related to using DNA for storage. See title and abstract below.
See you there, Or, Oron, Yuval and Alex
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Title: DNA-bases Storage Systems: Coding Theory and Algorithms
Abstract: Storage (and retrieval) of information over DNA-based media raises unique challenges in contrast to contemporary digital standards, on many levels: algorithmic, computer/data scientific, information theoretic, (bio- and electrical-)engineering, biologic (and chemical). Thus, fresh (and renewed) focus on a number of rarely-studied problems in computation and information theory is necessitated, in coordination with partners from all of these disciplines. In this talk, we take an information-theoretic perspective and outline the general channel model. We will delve into a few of its components, presenting pertinent Coding-theoretic problems and the approaches that have been deployed to address them.