in reply to Human genome array

I need to present the human genome as a multi-dimensional array. ... about 3 billion characters). I have enough RAM for this task.
  1. Why do you "need" to?

    Why do you need to have the entire genome in ram at the same time? Why do you need to store it in a 2D array?

  2. Do you realise that storing 3 billion characters each as a separate scalar in a 2D perl array will require approximately 150 GB of ram?
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