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by yongjik 3782 days ago
> It contains a gene regulatory network more complex than the entire network topology of Amazon's entire web services stack...

Maybe it's not a fair comparison but I decided to look it up:

Human genome has about 3.2 billion base pairs, which is about 6.4Gbits = 800MB. The size of linux-4.4.1.tar.gz is about 83MB. So, in a sense, the human genome is only about ten times the compressed size of Linux kernel, never mind everything on top of that.