Short reminder:

The human genome, with all its magic, is about 3,117,275,501 base pairs long. Source: Wikipedia

If you would encode that data digitally, and store it on a SSD drive, it would take up < 1 GB.

So, if we can do so much magic with 1 GB, that should be an inspiration to all software to do more, with less space.

Thank you for coming to my talk.

  • somnuz@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    1 GB is okay, can we — for the sake of this argument — compress it?

    • Yer Ma@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      It is compressed by histones, except during cell division and when specific sections are expanded for reading and transcribing