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<unit, data> (GB or colloquially "gig") A unit of data equal to one billion bytes but see binary prefix for other definitions. A gigabyte is 1000^3 bytes or 1000 megabytes.
A human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons) contains about 1.5 gigabytes of data.
1000 gigabytes are one terabyte.
See prefix.
Human genome data content (http://bitesizebio.com/articles/how-much-information-is-stored-in-the-human-genome/).
(2013-11-03)
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