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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo by MagnumOpus on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:03AM (#25287423)
A complete haploid human genome is 3 billion base pairs. One byte encodes four basepairs, so that's 750MB in total; and it losslessly compresses to less than half that amount.

If you store more than one genome, any additional genome is only 4MB because human genomes are 99% identical.

So you could store the genomes of an entire city on your hard drive.

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