Re:All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan
by ernst_10 on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:46PM
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If most data is common between people, then storing the diffs should be cheap.
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Re:All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan
by mbreese on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @12:05AM
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It still costs a lot to process and until it’s all aligned, you don’t know which parts are common. So, even if you have smaller long term storage, whole genome data still has significantly more costs to work with (at least an order of magnitude, if not two).
And you store more information than just the raw sequence (quality scores, multiple reads, etc).