In the late 80s, around 0.01 gigabyte (10 megabyte) of genomics data was generated annually. Compared to that, in the late 2010s, the amount of genomics data generated annually was around twenty petabytes (20 million gigabytes).
Genomics data volume increase worldwide over time between 1985 and 2019
(in gigabytes per year)
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