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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. DNA-rainbow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    DNA-rainbow
    I didn't RTFM-- did they just find the gay gene or is this a dupe about finding the flamboyant gene?
  2. Re:Lame by nacturation · · Score: 1, Troll
    Check out the article on MirrorDot -- quoting from the page:

    We took the genetic code from huge data files and assigned a color to every of the four bases. Then we rendered these fascinating pictures, showing the genetic code of humans in color. You can see crazy structures and strange patterns in the images, best viewed when shutting your eyes just a little bit. Click on a link to a chromosome above and use your imagination to get a new view of your genes. Sounds like junk science to me.
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  3. Re:password needed?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am a gay nigger from outter space and I just had to get that off my chesticles which are hard from watching gay niggers hump each other and produce large ammounts of gay nigger sperm.

  4. Retard by iliketrash · · Score: -1, Troll

    How many mistakes can one poster put per line?

    The link needs a password.

    "groundbreaking new" is redundant.

    "Anyways" is, what, Canadian?

    "it's" is a fuck*ng contraction, not a pronoun. Kids, let's get this right just once, OK?

  5. Dirty secret of HGP by AnnuitCoeptis · · Score: -1, Troll

    Human genome project scans just the 'upper level' of the DNA and not the entire DNA sequence. We share 99% of DNA with the shimp right (now). Things are much more complicated there. It's like their binoculars captured upper boundary of the mountain range underneath.