The Desperate Quest for Genomic Compression Algorithms
&gt; Typically, a DNA sequencing machine that’s processing the entire genome of a human will generate tens to hundreds of gigabytes of data. When stored, the cumulative data of millions of genomes will occupy dozens of exabytes.<p>100GB * 1M = 100 petabytes, not exabytes.<p>It&#x27;s also worth quantifying the cost of storing this data.  Storing 100GB on Amazon Glacier costs ~$5&#x2F;year, which is still a small fraction of the total cost of whole genome sequencing.