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Table 4 Data before and after compression

From: A highly parallel strategy for storage of digital information in living cells

Data

Size of file (bytes)

Size of tar archive (bytes)

Length of encoded DNA (bp)

Rate

Cat.jpg

10,387

12,288

106,968

0.459

Flat file

10,340

11,776

1792

26.286

Random data

10,240

12,288

112,044

0.439

Centromere

11,001

12,800

35,200

1.454

Cat-big.jpg

105,359

107,008

1,082,584

0.395