Genetic Information do you hold?

[theboss]

Here's a random thing i'd like to try, I made this genetic info calculator some time ago. That calculates the amount of data that the total of all your cells hold. (yea, I know that most of it is duplicate)
I used these facts:

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One base pair(AT, CG, TA or GC) holds 2 bits.
A diploid cell has 6 billion base pairs.
Every cell has 1.4 Gb of genetic information.
The amount of cells in the human body is debated to be either 10, 50 or 100 trillion. We took the average of 53.33 Trillion.
The weight of a human cell is 10E-11 Kg.

So how much data do you posses?
http://www.parascientifica.com/humandata.php

[Zapp]

to bad it's filled with copies of a 1.4Gb file
and don't forget the 5 petabytes of brain storage

[theboss]

Thats for reference, as most people don't really get an idea when they hear exabytes. xD

Also I'm not sure if thats actually already in there.
Probably not because our brain doesn't store stuff in DNA, but ofc not all of our mass is cells, so I think that this value is rounded up anyway.

[WhoDatMath]

Cool website you show us. Happy it makes me. Interesting I find it.

[theboss]

Was that a haiku?
Because if it was then the first line is wrong

[hellerbarde]

sounded more like yoda

[theboss]

Nah, yoda would say.
Cool website, showme you do. Happy it makes me. Interesting it I find.

[bmonk]

Do you take into account the bacterial cultures in each human being, and the genetic material in all those cells?

Each one would be less than a human cell, but there are more bacteria in a person than human cells.