From Purdue Genomics Database Facility

Cool Stuff

Add links to cool stuff from other groups here.

Programming

• Circos - cirdular visulaization of alignments conservation and chromosomal relationships, from Martin Krzywinski

• schemaball - circular schema visualization, from Martin Krzywinski

• language benchmark for bioinformatics results

Recreation

• High Dynamic Time Range Photography, from Martin Krzywinski
• Gallery of Random Art
• Human Genome cartoons
• Animation of processes inside living cells
  • Harvard made 3D animation of what's going on inside your cells. *My* cells, on the other hand look nothing like this

• Cell Biologist Ken Miller on Evolution and intelligent Design - Video of Lecture
  • Ken Miller's talk on Intelligent Design at Case Western Reserve University. Ken Miller basically rips Intelligent Design apart in a 2 hour long exposé of the claims of intelligent design and the tactics that creationists employ to get it shoehorned into the American school system.

• The Race for DNA
  • This website narrates the breathless details of the pursuit of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA and competition between Linus Pauling and Francis Crick/James Watson.
• Infosthetics Data Visualization Blog
  • A showcase of the good, the bad, and the ugly of data visualization and its interface with art.
• Notpron Puzzles
  • Eighty-one sequential pages of puzzles. Think outside the box.