> Please God tell me they've at least tried compressing the DNA to account for actual fundamental string complexity rather than just length. I was thinking abo

> Please God tell me they've at least tried compressing the DNA to account for actual fundamental string complexity rather than just length. I was thinking about this a couple of months ago, and I've been browsing a load of verbose OxBridge articles looking for just one aspect: most uses of compression algorithms are for digitally stored data which can be classed under a homogeneous class of 'ASCII files', regardless of file type. But genes have a very small alphabet, four letters, so I can fit four bases in a byte, four times more space efficient than old ASCII. On the other hand certain compression algorithms could pick up on this (disclaimed, I'm not an expert on compression algorithms).