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There are special compression algorithms for genetic sequence data, but I was curious how well simply zipping a text file would work. I downloaded a 14 MB text file containing DNA sequence data from a fruit fly and compressed it as a zip file and as a 7z file. The result was about 3.5 MB, […] The post Naive compression of genetic data first appeared on John D. Cook....