Table 2.

Measured in vitro performance and inferred extrapolation to large datasets

	Code rate
	0.166	0.250	0.333	0.500	0.600	0.750
Untreated
Strand decode failure rate	0.033	0.033	0.040	0.045	0.055	0.069
Observed byte error rate	0.00061	0.00110	0.00182	0.00240	0.00248	0.00547
Mean byte errors per RS decode	0.16	0.28	0.46	0.61	0.63	1.39
Mean bytes to uncorrectable	1.8E+28	9.2E+23	2.1E+20	2.2E+18	1.3E+18	3.8E+12
High mutagenesis
Strand decode failure rate	0.027	0.029	0.029	0.037	0.062	0.322
Observed byte error rate	0.00034	0.00114	0.00137	0.00345	0.00850	0.02888
Mean byte errors per RS decode	0.09	0.29	0.35	0.88	2.17	7.36
Mean bytes to uncorrectable	3.6E+32	5.1E+23	2.4E+22	5.9E+15	4.4E+09	4.9E+02

The upper two values in each box are as experimentally measured in vitro. The bottom values are inferred from the measured quantities for error-free decoding of large datasets under the same experimental conditions. Colors indicate feasibility for large data storage, by the same criteria as Fig. 2.