Synthetic nucleic acids for information storage and transmission

DWPI Title: Method for storing and transmitting information by employing nucleic acid construct, involves relaying nucleic acid sequence of lock region to recipient and key, and placing nucleic acid construct on object to be transmitted to recipient
Abstract: The present invention relates to method for storing and transmitting information by employing a nucleic acid construct. The nucleic acid construct can include a lock region; a translation key region that corresponds to the identity of a key; and a message region including a nucleic sequence that corresponds to an encrypted message.
Use: Method for storing and transmitting information by employing a nucleic acid construct (claimed).
Advantage: The method enables combining each encrypted message section into a continuous nucleic acid sequence, thus providing the message region. The method enables increasing security and number of unique libraries.
Novelty: The method involves converting each character in an information format into a triplet or quadruplet codon by employing a key, for generating an encrypted message (102) represented by a nucleic acid or a complement. A nucleic acid construct (103) comprising a lock region is synthesized. A nucleic acid sequence is comprised with a primer binding region or a complement. The nucleic acid sequence of the lock region is relayed to a recipient and the key corresponding to a translation key region. The nucleic acid construct is placed on an object to be transmitted to the recipient, where the synthesizing comprises inserting a start codon indicating beginning of a message region, and inserting a stop codon indicating end of the message region.
Filed: 7/16/2019
Application Number: US16512577A
Tech ID: SD 14068.1
This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention.
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