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dekhn
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Human genome stored on 'everlasting' memory crysta...
any human differs less than 1 % (although it really depends on how you count differences). It would make sense to store one reference, and then everybody is stored as a delta relative to that (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRAM_(file_format)
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_of_genomic_sequenc...
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