Research disclaimer
VNX-DNA is software. No strand encoded by VNX-DNA has been synthesised, stored, amplified or sequenced. Every recovery rate, threshold and decoding result on this site comes either from software-generated DNA passed through a software channel model (simulated) or from statistics of another group's public sequencing data (public data).
The channel models are stress models; none has passed our pre-registered tests as a validated model of a sequencing platform. Results may not transfer to real DNA.
Nothing on this site establishes storage lifetime, cost, density in practice, or production readiness.
Current scientific boundary
Demonstrated computationally
- Software that encodes files into constraint-screened DNA sequences and recovers them from simulated noisy reads, reporting success only after SHA-256 and Merkle verification.
- No false success in the decoder evaluations reported from V6 to V9, including 600 paired V9 evaluation cases (SIMULATED).
- Native C kernels that produce byte-identical results to their Python references, checked with sanitizers and fuzzing.
- Reproducible experiments: pre-registered designs, committed results files and a reproduction script (29 / 29 rows reproduced at V9).
- A channel model fitted to public nanopore data, tested against pre-registered criteria and reported as INADEQUATE.
Not demonstrated
- DNA synthesis, storage, amplification or sequencing of VNX-DNA strands. None has been performed.
- Performance on real sequencing reads from a physical VNX-DNA experiment.
- A validated model of any sequencing platform.
- Storage lifetime, cost per byte, or production readiness.
- Recovery at coverage 3 under the D13-F1 stress channel, or whole-archive recovery of large archives under it.