Ecce Homology is a physically interactive new-media work that visualizes genetic data as calligraphic forms.
A group of artists and scientists has created an interactive artwork using BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), one of the foundational algorithms for comparative genomics. Normally, the BLAST...
Sep, 01, 2005
In three dimensions, researchers can now visualize the location and activity of more than 21,000 genes in a normal mouse brain. The Allen Brain Atlas, funded with $100 million in seed money...
Jan, 01, 2007
A new media artwork explores novel ways to represent and intuitively understand nature in the metagenomic era
What’s it like to be immersed in a dataset of millions of DNA sequences? Audiences of ATLAS in silico—a new media artwork that explores novel ways to represent and intuitively understand...
Oct, 01, 2008
Thirty years ago, molecular biologists routinely constructed protein models out of brass rods (“Kendrew models”). In recent years, researchers put away such tinker toys and turned to...
Aug, 31, 2005
Looking inside the cell without opening it
When light hits an obstacle, its scattering pattern reveals information regarding the internal structure of the obstacle. If that obstacle is a cell, the scattering pattern might indicate whether the...
Jun, 01, 2005
2-D simulation shows angiogenesis as it happens
Microscopic capillaries grow on demand, snaking toward hungry cells needing their blood supply. Understanding how to control this process could help scientists promote wound healing or halt cancer in...
Jan, 01, 2007
Mutual information (MI) is defined in information theory as a measure of the dependencies between two random variables. There are many biomedical applications in which it is beneficial to quantify...
Jul, 01, 2007
Patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders are known to have adverse brain changes, such as reduced volume—but it’s unclear what comes first, the disease or the abnormality...
Apr, 01, 2009
One of the major obstacles to studying the human brain has always been gaining access. Until relatively recently, almost all of what we knew about the brain was obtained through post-mortem ...
Apr, 01, 2008
Computer reconstruction of electron microscope images reveals surprising bends in viral DNA.
The phi29 bacteriophage is an efficient infection machine—it fires its genome into a host bacterium, hijacks the host’s cellular equipment, and assembles an army of new viruses for its...
Oct, 01, 2008