Uses the principle of varying the length of symbols used for representation based on the recurrence of a character Not applicable to numbers and symbols
Consists of fixed length reading frames of 6 bases including the comma, G
Fixed length base frames without commas to separate the frames Does not consist of identical four bases Does not have the capability to recover the broken data when a large segment is deleted from a data encoded region
Stores text, images, and music in DNA Expensive
70% more efficient than the other codes due to the use of a variable code length