this is a 2012 post and a whole lot of science has been developed since. See more with Microsoft [1], NCSU [2], Stanford [3] and others
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dna-storage... [2] https://www.cbe.ncsu.edu/blog/2020/11/08/a-new-approach-to-d... [3] https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13595440