DNAsmart: Multiple attribute ranking tool for DNA data storage systems

• DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2023.02.016
• Publication Date: 2023-02-10T22:42:54Z
• Authors: Chisom Ezekannagha; Marius Welzel; Dominik Heider; Georges Hattab
• Keywords: Interactivity

In an ever-growing need for data storage capacity, the Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) molecule gains traction as a new medium with larger higher density, and longer lifespan over conventional media. To effectively use DNA storage, it is important to understand different methods of encoding information in compare their effectiveness. This requires evaluating which decoded sequences carry most encoded based on various attributes. However, navigating field coding theory years experience domain expertise. For instance, experts rely mathematical functions attributes score evaluate encodings. enable such analytical tasks, we provide interactive visual framework multi-attribute ranking systems. Our follows three-step view user-settable parameters. It enables users find optimal en-/de-coding approaches by setting weights combining multiple We assess validity our work through task-specific user study relying three tasks. Results indicate that all participants completed tasks successfully under two minutes, then rated design choices, perceived usefulness, intuitiveness. addition, real-world cases are shared analyzed direct applications proposed tool. DNAsmart sum, this unveils evaluation accessible tractable visualization interactivity solve comparison