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1 year ago

in How Much Data is a Human Genome? Not Much. on Think Gene
3 billion is the size of a *haploid* human genome. Since we have two copies of each of our chromosomes (except for men and the sex chromosomes), technically the number of bases is 6 billion, though of course the vast majority of these will be the same between two homologous chromosomes. But I'm sure the compression algorithm would recognize that...
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