Setting the record straight on ejaculate

[elfs]

So, apparently there's this meme going around that a single ejaculation containes something like 1.5 terabytes of data. However, after de-duplication and BWT-based compression, you'd only end up with something like 15KB of Shannon information.

See, this is what comes (ahem) of me encountering this meme while I'm in the midst of a crash course on bioinformatic visualization techniques.

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[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

Does that include all the various mutations?