Antonio Regalado
@antonioregalado · May 25, 2022
The difference of any two human genomes---yours versus the reference -- might be on the order of ~50 million base pairs...stored as 10Mbytes? So one form of compression is just the differences.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
That’s a good point. One could simply have a few reference human genomes and simply code each individual with a lossless compression delta!
Could probably fit the DNA sequences of all humans alive today in a fairly small data storage system.
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