@article {Yatribi2020226, title = {An Efficient and Secure Forward Error Correcting Scheme for DNA Data Storage}, journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing}, volume = {942}, year = {2020}, note = {cited By 0}, pages = {226-237}, abstract = {In this paper, a new efficient error correcting scheme for DNA archival digital data storage is proposed. We devise a double protection scheme for DNA oligos, aiming to ensure the protection of both information and indexing header data from both symbol flipping and erasure-burst errors, using two different cyclic ternary difference-set codes, which are known to be completely orthogonalisable and very easy to decode using a simple majority-logic decoding algorithm. We show that the proposed scheme is efficient and easily scalable, and provides a coding potential of 1.97 bit per nucleotide, and a reasonable net information density of 0.75 bit/nt under the considered experimental conditions, with relatively a lower decoding complexity and costs compared to other DNA data storage approaches. {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.}, keywords = {Bioinformatics, Decoding, Decoding complexity, Difference sets, Digital storage, DNA, Error correcting scheme, Errors, Experimental conditions, Forward error correcting, Gene encoding, Information density, Majority logic, Pattern recognition, Protection schemes, Simple majority, Soft computing}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-17065-3_23}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85064931520\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-17065-3_23\&partnerID=40\&md5=215574899d2a75166c0a2fc343cb673e}, author = {Yatribi, A. and Belkasmi, M. and Ayoub, F.} }