The speaker this week is Yonatan Yehezkeally, who will tell us about problems related to using DNA for storage. See title and abstract below.
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.