There's also the gap symbol for alignments and 10 other codes for either-or combinations of nucleotides: www.bioinformatics.org/sms/iupac.html.
These can fit into 4 bits. But transparent compression saves more space and is easier to work with
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There's also the gap symbol for alignments and 10 other codes for either-or combinations of nucleotides: www.bioinformatics.org/sms/iupac.html.
These can fit into 4 bits. But transparent compression saves more space and is easier to work with