Compositions, systems, and methods for data storage by modifying and reading clusters of convertible monomers in polymers
AssigneeNAIO, Inc.
InventorEric Kool
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Abstract
Data encodable polymers, including nucleic polymers, for data storage and related methods are described. Generally, a nucleic acid polymer can have chemically modifiable structures iteratively repeated along the polymer. The chemically modifiable structures can be modified to encode data. A data encoding device can have a spatial resolution that modifies a string of contiguous chemically modifiable structures to yield a cluster of modified structures. Various methods can be utilized to generate a data encodable nucleic acid polymer. Various methods can be utilized to encode a data encodable nucleic acid polymer. Various methods of decoding can be utilized to decode an encoded nucleic acid or other polymer.
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1-267. (canceled)
A method, comprising
- (a) providing a polymer, wherein:
- (i) said polymer comprises at least 100 residues;
- (ii) said polymer comprises a plurality of clusters comprising a plurality of convertible residues, wherein each convertible residue of said plurality of convertible residues is in a first state, and is capable of being converted into a second state by a stimulus;
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- (iii) each cluster of said plurality of residue clusters comprises at least 10 convertible residues;
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- (b) encoding data into said polymer by converting convertible residues of a cluster of said plurality of clusters from said first state into said second state using said stimulus, wherein a data unit of said data is represented by said cluster.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.