Analytical data for a gold(I)-6-thioguanosine coordination polymer and the incorporation of this motif into DNA duplex. The data consists of spectroscopic, diffraction, microscopy, electrical and DFT modelling studies Al-MahamadL El-ZubirO SmithD HorrocksB HoultonA 2017 Data set for A Coordination polymer for the site-specific integration of semiconducting sequences into DNA containing FTIR, Fluorescence, CD, AFM, computational, XPS, XRD, electrical data