3 ms·

OK, so how much could that increase the 800MB estimate? How many orders of magnitude?

• Palomides 7y ago
  looking at the first step in that graphic, for example, a histone is made of 4 distinct types of parts, and in humans each of those has a dozen variants, and the final assembled histone can additionally be tagged with other pieces. and the physical interaction between the histone and the DNA is influenced by the local sequence. I don't know how I would quantify that, but there's a lot going on.
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• jerf 7y ago
  Information is a log of the possibilities. Adding epigenetics and such will add to the number of bits, not multiply them. If I give you another decimal digit to stick on to a number, it may give you another factor of 10 to play with on its sum, but it'll still be just one more digit, not a factor of magnitude more digits.