A bacteria has order of 50 billion atoms. (Eukaryotic human cells, 100 trillion.) That's getting to the point you could store 20 bytes per atom in a terabyte.

A bacteria has order of 50 billion atoms. (Eukaryotic human cells, 100 trillion.) That's getting to the point you could store 20 bytes per atom in a terabyte. (The big bottleneck is that you need picosecond resolution simulation steps and to cover minutes to see a protein fold.)