I just looked up how large the human genome is in bits (when the 4 bases are packed into 2 bits per base) the size of our genome is about 770MB.
Is the Axolotl's genome really 42.5 times larger than ours?
Is the Axolotl's genome really 42.5 times larger than ours?
The axolotl haploid genome is 32 Gbp, which, in 2-bit encoding and ignoring masked bases, takes 8GB to store.
Axolotl, like humans, is diploid, meaning it has 2 copies of each chromosome.
That’s only about 10 times the size of the human genome. That being said, the complexity of a genome doesn’t scale with size. Many plant genomes are gargantuan but highly repetitive. The Kolmogorov complexity of a genome would better predict the complexity of the organism than a genome’s length would.
Though storage capacity is growing, it seems DNA still wins by some margin though
[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/01/mp3-files-written-as...