Genetic Database Hits One Billion Entries

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday January 17, 2006 @02:39PM from the start-the-recount dept.

ChocSnorfler writes to tell us that the Sanger Institute is reporting that their Genetic Record Database has hit one billion entries, making it the world's largest. From the announcement: "The Trace Archive is a store of all the sequence data produced and published by the world scientific community, including the Sanger Institute's own prodigious output as a world-leading genomics institution. To grasp how much data is in the Archive, if it were printed out as a single line of text, it would stretch around the world more than 250 times. Printing it out on pages of A4 would produce a stack of paper two-and-a-half times as high as Mount Everest. The Archive is 22 Terabytes in size and doubling every ten months."

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Re:For God's sake, don't print it! by tomhudson · 2006-01-17 15:15 · Score: 0, Troll

By the time you successfully print the 22TB of data, you would no doubt pass the 10 month threshold for the double sized growth. Once you start printing, you'd never stop!

I have a simpler soluton - just study Bush supporters - they come from the shallow end of the gene pool, so your flood of data would also slow to a ttrickle.
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