I know very little about genomics and biology and would love it if someone who knows more could answer my silly questions to help me understand this more:
- This has genome data from 1,700 people. In theory could a company build a machine that read one of these "files" as input and made a baby as output?
- It says the dataset is 200TB. If 1 person has 3 billion dna bases(which I understand can be 1 of 4 values or 2 bits), it seems that even uncompressed the dataset would be 6billion bits (<1GB per person) and so only ~ 1.7TB uncompressed for 1,700 people. What am I missing?
- This has genome data from 1,700 people. In theory could a company build a machine that read one of these "files" as input and made a baby as output?
- It says the dataset is 200TB. If 1 person has 3 billion dna bases(which I understand can be 1 of 4 values or 2 bits), it seems that even uncompressed the dataset would be 6billion bits (<1GB per person) and so only ~ 1.7TB uncompressed for 1,700 people. What am I missing?