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.
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1 GB is okay, can we — for the sake of this argument — compress it?
It is compressed by histones, except during cell division and when specific sections are expanded for reading and transcribing