Permacomputing

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Computing to support life on Earth

Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.

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The size of the human genome (feddit.de)

submitted 9 months ago by gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de to c/permacomputing@slrpnk.net

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Short reminder:

The human genome, with all its magic, is about 3,117,275,501 base pairs long. Source: Wikipedia

If you would encode that data digitally, and store it on a SSD drive, it would take up < 1 GB.

So, if we can do so much magic with 1 GB, that should be an inspiration to all software to do more, with less space.

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz -1 points 9 months ago

Well yes, but there are >8 billion humans out there. And a single human would be quite useless. So it's more like 8 Exabytes. Quite a lot.

Of course, there is a heap of research on the efficient lossless and lossy compressed representation of pangenomes, so my blind guys would be that we could probably losslessly store all human genomes in a petabyte or so.