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DNA-rainbow, A New Vision of Human Chromosomes

Posted by samzenpus on from the painting-genes dept.

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."

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  1. Lame by nacturation · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is the same principle as the Bible Code which has been shown over and over to be rubbish. If you line things up in various ways you can find just about any pattern you want given sufficiently long input.

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    1. Re:Lame by gnalle · · Score: 3, Informative

      The two scientists have invented a nice way of visualizing repeated sequences in DNA, but the results are hardly controversial. They are doing something along the following lines: pixel(x,y) = getcolor(DNAsequence(x + 256*y))

  2. Re:Magic Eye? by advocate_one · · Score: 4, Informative
    for the bemused... here's the reference...

    Little Girl: [looking at a Magic Eye poster] Wow. It's a schooner.
    Willam Black: Ha ha ha ha. You dumb bastard. It's not a schooner... it's a Sailboat.
    Little Boy: A schooner IS a sailboat stupid head.
    Willam Black: [becoming enraged] You know what. There is NO Easter Bunny. Over there, that's just a guy in a suit.
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  3. Re:Good Science/Art websites? by vonmeth · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html