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by acchow 1321 days ago
I had a brain fart. I was thinking of DNA base pairs not amino acids :) Thanks for that.

There are 20 amino acids. Each AA in a sequence represents approx 4.3 bits. So 9-11 AA would be 38.7-47.3 bits. Not quite as much as an MD5 hash (128 bits), but still quite a bit of info.