Calibrating state transition probabilities associated with a dna-based storage system to optimize decoding

A DNA-based storage system, comprising:

• a decoding system;
• and
• a control system operable to:
• cause the decoding system to perform a decoding process on a DNA codeword using a set of initial state transition probabilities;
• cause the decoding system to interrupt the decoding process based, at least in part, on determining that a threshold number of decoding iterations of the decoding process have been executed;
• identify decoding information obtained during execution of the threshold number of decoding iterations;
• and
• update at least one initial state transition probability of the set of initial state transition probabilities based, at least in part, on the decoding information.

A control system for a DNA-based storage system, comprising:

• means for causing a decoding system associated with the DNA-based storage system to perform a decoding process on a DNA codeword using a set of initial state transition probabilities;
• means for causing the decoding system to interrupt the decoding process based, at least in part, on determining that a threshold number of decoding iterations of the decoding process have been executed;
• means for identify decoding information obtained during the execution of the threshold number of decoding iterations;
• means for updating at least one initial state transition probability of the set of initial state transition probabilities based, at least in part, on the decoding information;
• and
• means for causing the decoding system to resume the decoding process using the updated at least one initial state transition probability.