Construction of single-deletion-correcting DNA codes using CIS codes

Abstract

We find a method for constructing DNA codes with single-deletion-correcting capability. We first present an explicit algorithm for the construction of the q-ary single-deletion-correcting codes (abbreviated as SDC codes) using a class of the complementary information set codes (abbreviated as CIS codes), where q is a power of a prime. We then show that the encoding/decoding scheme of the CIS codes with single-deletion-correcting capability has a simple deterministic algorithm. Finally, applying our algorithm to the generated DNA codes with appropriate modification, we obtain the DNA codes with single-deletion-correcting capability. We present some various examples of such DNA codes, and we also obtain some lower bounds on the maximum size of the single-deletion-correcting DNA codes. © 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.