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IIRC, it’s only about 30Kb of information, and the vast majority of that is shared with similar viruses in the same family.

Assuming there’s a reliable way to remove segments of the genome (I’m not a biologist, so I’m not sure if that’s practical), it doesn’t appear to be an impossible problem to solve.



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