DNA canvas for information storage and nanofabrication

A system for amplifiable data storage comprising:

• a reference map and a data map, wherein each of the reference map and the data map comprises:
• a substrate uniformly coated with a first half of a binding complex;
• a plurality of polymer strands comprising a second half of the binding complex, such that a plurality of immobilized polymer strands are uniformly distributed on the substrate at a known coordinate, wherein each of the immobilized polymer strands comprises a uniquely-identifiable polymer sequence;
• wherein the reference map comprises a set of reference association polymers, each reference association polymer provided by nondestructively associating each polymer strand with a spatially-adjacent polymer strand in which the association is stored in a copyable or an amplifiable polymer;
• wherein the data map comprises a set of data association polymers, each data association polymer provided by:
• encoding a bitmap of data by disabling a pattern of a selected plurality of polymer strands;
• nondestructively associating each non-disabled polymer strand with a spatially-adjacent non-disabled polymer strand in which the association is stored in a copyable or an amplifiable polymer;
• wherein the data encoded in the data map is capable of being computationally recovered by comparison of a set of reference association polymer sequences to a set of data association polymer sequences.