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If most data is common between people, then storing the diffs should be cheap.

• mbreese 5y ago
  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).