From Pixels to Nucleotides: End-to-End Token-Based Video Compression for DNA Storage

ArXi:2604.13667v1 Announce Type: new DNA-based storage has emerged as a promising approach to the global data crisis, offering molecular-scale density and millennial-scale stability at low maintenance cost. Over the past decade, substantial progress has been made in storing text, images, and files in DNA -- yet video remains an open challenge. The difficulty is not merely technical: effective video DNA storage requires co-designing compression and molecular encoding from the ground up, a challenge that sits at the intersection of two fields that have largely evolved independently.