# BacSoft: A Tool to Archive Data on Bacteria

## TL;DR

BacSoft is a software tool designed to encode and clone digital data into bacterial plasmids using genetic engineering principles, advancing biological data storage methods.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel encoding scheme tailored for bacterial data storage and provides a software implementation for cloning data into plasmids.

## Key findings

- Successful encoding of data into bacterial plasmids
- Compatibility of encoding schemes with bacterial constraints
- Potential for scalable biological data storage

## Abstract

Recently, DNA data storage systems have attracted many researchers worldwide. Motivated by the success stories of such systems, in this work we propose a software called BacSoft to clone the data in a bacterial plasmid by using the concept of genetic engineering. We consider the encoding schemes such that it satisfies constraints significant for bacterial data storage.