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weinzierl on March 30, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

> "Instead it's no bigger than a large paragraph of text, and I can easily fit it on my screen."

When I saw it, I thought that it could almost fit in a tweet, so I just did it:

https://twitter.com/weinzierl/status/1376807707957719041?s=2...

The sequence takes 16 tweets, 15 if you don't split at line endings and remove spaces (4175 nucleobases / 280 nucleobases/tweet ~ 14.9 tweets).

lifthrasiir on March 30, 2021 [–]

Or you can use base2048 [1] to compress it down to 3 tweets (4175 nucleobases * 2 bits per nucleobase / 3080 bits per base2048 tweet = 2.7 tweets).

[1] https://github.com/qntm/base2048/

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