

DNA-rainbow, A New Vision of Human Chromosomes 161
An anonymous reader writes "Two scientists have rendered amazing pictures using datafiles from the human genome project. They assigned different colors to the DNA and rendered images showing interesting patterns and strange structures of our chromosomes. It might be a groundbreaking new idea for displaying and maybe better understanding our genes. With its fascinating pictures it is a beautiful mix of science and art."
Good Science/Art websites? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Lame (Score:1, Interesting)
Unfortunately Slashdot will not render:
Hey, it looks like piet source code! (Score:2, Interesting)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_(programming_la
http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html [dangermouse.net]
It'd be nice to be able to load the chromasomes up into the piet interpreter, and see what comes out!
Wouldn't it be interesting, though, if it turns out that the genome could be understood as a 'program', and a specially coded interpreter could process it...
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Re:A pattern is a patterns is a pattern (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:Lame (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Lame (Score:3, Interesting)
Using the Bible Code method, you can find a 'prediction' of the death of Princess Diana in the book 'Moby Dick'
Also, Genesis contains the phrase "Darwin got it right"
Completely pointless (Score:3, Interesting)
I can understand if they took two different genomes from the same species and did some kind of comparison: different colors for matches, indels, translocations, silent/synonymous/non-synonymous SNPs, etc. Or translated the sequence and colored by hydrophobicity/charge/polarity/whatever. Or showed haplotype conservation between species.
At least that would tell you something, this is just a bunch of pixels with no meaning. A vaguely similar thing I've done was to plot plot SNP density (as color intensity) over the genome - but that was for a specific project, I didn't realize such things are "new visions".
There are definitely prettier visualizations out there too: http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/genomevalence [mit.edu]
Even this [visualcomplexity.com] is a lot more informative (I think www.visualcomplexity.com was mentioned on slashdot a couple of years ago).