Table 3

Comparison of the DNA encryption algorithms
algorithm
 organism
 affect
 error detection
 error correction
 binary
 encryption
 utilization
Clelland et al.
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 20
Gehani et al.
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
Leier et al.
 -
 -
 -
 -
 +
 -
 ≤ 9
Wong et al.
 +
 +
 +
 +
 -
 -
 20
Arita et al.
 +
 -
 +
 -
 -
 -
 ≤ 5
DNA-Crypt
 +
 -
 +
 +
 +
 +
 ≤ 8

organism: the use of this algorithm in living organisms;

affect: observation that the algorithm exerts an effect on the organims;

error detection/correction: the algorithm shows an error detection/correction function;

binary: binary information can be encoded;

encryption: the use of binary encryption algorithm like AES or RSA;

utilization: storage utilization in a 100 bp DNA sequence;

- = negative;

+ = positive;

Heider and Barnekow BMC Bioinformatics 2007 8:176   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-176