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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. Magic Eye? by SinVulture · · Score: 5, Funny

    No matter how hard I try, I can't see the sailboat!

  2. Your chromosomes... by Riktov · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...are heavily fragmented. This could degrade performance in creating offspring.

    Would you like to optimize your chromosomes?

    [Yes] [No] [Cancel]

  3. Hey, baby. . .. by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Taste the rainbow!

  4. Oops by tehSpork · · Score: 5, Funny

    It looks like the DNA has been Slashdotted.

    Hopefully the next version will have developed a natural defense mechanism to handle the strain Slashdot puts on servers. :)

  5. Re:Good Science/Art websites? by vonmeth · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  6. Re:A pattern is a patterns is a pattern by sporkme · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Referencing the earlier mentioned movie, Pi:
    Sol Robeson:

    Hold on. You have to slow down. You're losing it. You have to take a breath. Listen to yourself. You're connecting a computer bug I had with a computer bug you might have had and some religious hogwash. You want to find the number 216 in the world, you will be able to find it everywhere. 216 steps from a mere street corner to your front door. 216 seconds you spend riding on the elevator. When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere.
    Just that a pattern exists does not give meaning to the pattern. The Golden Rectangle was applied to the human body by Da Vinci and others, but no great significance can be discerned except that vertebrates tend to be symmetrical. The heavens did not burst forth as our creator revealed himself. The DNA pattern is more of the same - searching for patterns tends to yield them eventually.
    --
    FairTax baby!
  7. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, no, it isn't.

    The Bible Code people claimed that their ability to find patterns in a particular text of a particular religion both validated the truth of that religion and also allowed predictive ability on world events.

    These guys are saying, "Hey look, if you display a bitmap representation of genomes, they look pretty."

    I am sure that you can see the difference between these two claims.