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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 10 months ago by gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de to c/permacomputing

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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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[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, exactly.

And also, we probably don't need most of our genome anyway. IIRC, 90% or something seems to have no apparent function. It's just there as an artifact of evolution, and never got removed.

So, if you would leave all that out, the actually useful genome is much less than 3,117,275,501 base pairs.

The thing is, we have no idea, which genes are useful or not. It is often very difficult to say, and any error would probably lead to disease. So we don't mess with DNA.