Molecular Assemblies, Inc.

Avery Digital Data, Inc.

Matthew T Holden

J William Efcavitch

Barry L Merriman

Ryan De Ridder

Kim F Albizati

Alan Grubbs

Sanjay Agarwalla

Tim Geiser

Kyle T Gustafson

Patrycja A Hopkins

Michael Heller

Jay K Singh

The present disclosure discloses a polymer synthesis and assembly chip that includes a semiconductor integrated circuit device that contains a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel of the plurality of pixels contains an electrode; and wherein a set of pixels of the plurality of pixels is capable of synthesizing a polymer; and wherein a set of pixels of the plurality of pixels is capable of assembling a synthesized polymer, either independently or in concert with one or more pixels of the plurality of pixels; and control circuitry capable of applying voltages to the electrode. The present disclosure includes related methods of use, such as methods for error correction, for use with the described polymer synthesis and assembly chip.

Electronic devices for polymer synthesis and assembly

The invention provides improved methods for synthesizing polynucleotides, such as DNA and RNA, using renewable initiators coupled to a solid support. Using the methods of the invention, specific sequences of polynucleotides can be synthesized de novo, base by base, in an aqueous environment, without the use of a nucleic acid template.

Reusable initiators for synthesizing nucleic acids

Systems and methods for polynucleotide synthesis utilize electrochemical deprotection and novel redox chemistries compatible with advanced CMOS nodes, for highly reliable and massively scalable parallel construction of polynucleotide segments having a desired sequence or sequences. Via use of these exemplary techniques, low-cost and large-scale polynucleotide synthesis is facilitated, for example for data storage and retrieval applications.

Semiconductor chip devices and methods for polynucleotide synthesis

Nucleic acid memory strands encoding digital data using a sequence of homopolymer tracts of repeated nucleotides provides a cheaper and faster alternative to conventional digital DNA storage techniques. The use of homopolymer tracts allows for lower fidelity, high throughput sequencing techniques such as nanopore sequencing to read data encoded in the memory strands. Specialized synthesis techniques allow for synthesis of long memory strands capable of encoding large volumes of data despite the reduced data density afforded by homopolymer tracts as compared to conventional single nucleotide sequences.

Homopolymer encoded nucleic acid memory

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Matthew T Holden