Genomic data is rather beautiful in that the stirrings and mysteries of life can be glimpsed within it. I’ve been dabbling in making functional genomic art — mostly with spiral representations of bacterial DNA. Here’s a rendering of Borrelia burgdorferi plasmid cp26. We’re studying Borrelia in the lab. My first experiments (here and here) are [...]
One of my latest distractions is development of an EEG and biosensors workshop at Hack Manhattan, a NYC-based hackerspace I founded in September. I wanted to share this really great explanation of brainwaves from the NeuroSky website. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can only change forms but cannot be created or destroyed. [...]
I’ve updated my OpenGL DNA renderer to support amino acids, rather than just single nucleotides. I find these colorful DNA representations oddly aesthetically pleasing, so I’m pursuing it a bit further. It’s always possible I’ll find utility in being able to do some unique sequence rendering. I borrowed the color scheme for amino acids from [...]