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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Well yes, but there are >8 billion humans out there. And a single human would be quite useless. So it’s more like 8 Exabytes. Quite a lot.
Of course, there is a heap of research on the efficient lossless and lossy compressed representation of pangenomes, so my blind guys would be that we could probably losslessly store all human genomes in a petabyte or so.
