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Re:Microsoft, UW demonstrate first fully automated DNA data ... by dooglius on Saturday March 23, 2019 @10:23AM (#19470555)
The number of bits is the logarithm of possible cases; there are only two bits needed to describe the four bases, and only 12 billion bits needed to describe the 4^(6e9) possible configurations of data.
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