At least on the storage side, the data is very compressible. A LZ77 variant for genomic data called GDC [1] got a compression ratio of ∼9500, reducing the incremental size from 100GB to about 10 MB.<p>[1]: <a href="http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/REFRESH/index.php?page=projects&project=gdc&subpage=about" rel="nofollow">http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/REFRESH/index.php?page=projects&proj...</a>