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Table 3 Input data

From: A highly parallel strategy for storage of digital information in living cells

Input data

Explanation

Rationale

Cat.jpg

Color photo in jpeg format, scaled down to 300 × 200 pixels

Example of real world data

Flat file

A text file containing a string of 10,340 zeros

Demonstrate performance when given extremely repetitive data

Random data

10 kb of random data obtained from /dev/urandom on a Linux computer

Demonstrate performance when given data without any statistical bias

Centromere

Part of centromeric sequence from human chromosome I, retrieved from:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_000001.11?report=fasta&log$=seqview&format=text&from=11000&to=22000

Real-world example of repetitive information

Cat-big.jpg

Higher resolution (1125 × 750 pixels) version of Cat.jpg

Example of larger (100 kB) input file