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It's not as much data as one might think, especially if you store the deltas -- there's not that much variation between individuals. That fact has actually bee
by njm 17y ago
It's not as much data as one might think, especially if you store the deltas -- there's not that much variation between individuals. That fact has actually been exploited to a great extent in enabling the $1,000 genome.
- coderdude 17y agoHow much is "not much?" How many "values?" If stored as byte strings delimited by \n, how many lines? (I don't know if these are even answerable questions at this point, just wondering.)
- bbgm 17y agoThe raw data (the original image files), while mostly transient today, is massive. At some of the big genome centers they are in the double digit TB's of data processing per day