Archive for maps
June 3, 2007 at 7:46 AM · Filed under genomics, maps
Zack Denfeld and I had the opportunity to make a visit to The Institute for Transgeneography* in Troy, NY as part of (very brief) residency in association with our former advisor Rich Pell.
It was a valuable experience–if even just for the two days of freedom form dstraction to cognitively focus on the design and implementation of a visual analysis of the identity and distribution of patents on the Y chromosome.
One of the visual precedents we’ve started to develop relates to traditional Japanese woodblock prints and the ways that this approach organizes information. Here are some sketches.
The Institute for Transgeneography is a project whose primary objective is to create the world’s first comprehensive map of engineered transgenic flora and fauna. The project will consist of a database of transgenic organisms and the web interface that will make the information available to the public at large.
March 28, 2007 at 7:48 PM · Filed under maps, thesis
March 10, 2007 at 9:26 PM · Filed under bioinformatics, boundary objects, Design, digital design, evolution, genes, genomics, making it public, maps, molecular biology, network entrepreneurship, visualization, yeast
The collaborative work of graduate student Gabriel Harp and Chris Landau (MFA ’06) on the Organelle View project was published in the January issue of Nucleic Acids Research.
“The project makes a gigantic leap in the distribution of biological data–moving it beyond the conventional representations of names and numbers to embrace the visual and organismal aspects of cellular and molecular forms”, says Harp.
“Organelle View is a scientific visualization application allowing users to dynamically generate a visual interpretation of data from Organelle DB. Organelle View presents a searchable interface with a three-dimensional representation of an archetypical cell. Rather than representing organelles and subcellular structures by text, Organelle View offers an artist’s rendering of a cell and its major organelles. At present, we have chosen a budding yeast cell (S.cerevisiae) as the model for Organelle View, largely because protein localization has been studied quite extensively in yeast; future versions of Organelle View will incorporate additional cell types from other organisms.”
(Wiwatwattana, N., Landau, C.M., Cope, G.J., Harp, G.A., & Kumar, A. (2007). Organelle DB: an updated resource of eukaryotic protein localization and function. Nucleic Acids Research, 35, D810-D814.)
full text via PubMed
February 17, 2007 at 11:56 AM · Filed under maps, sculpture, thesis
The view approaching Palmer Commons from Medical Campus (north).
The view from inside where sui.generis will be installed.
February 11, 2007 at 9:22 AM · Filed under boundary objects, genomics, maps, sketches, yeast
January 24, 2007 at 2:37 PM · Filed under boundary objects, maps, teaching and learning, visualization
An exhibit at the New York Hall of Science featuring different kinds of maps ranging from the geographic to the informational.
Kevin Boyack, John Burgoon, Peter Kennard, Richard Klavans, Bradford Paley, Illuminated Diagram: Map of Science, 2006
From IU Discoveries magazine:
Maps of science can show where the infrastructure of a specific research industry exists, along with where ideas, research, and innovations are created. In this way, it is possible to identify and track core competencies of potential collaborators or competitors or to discover emerging research frontiers. A map of Indiana can be created that shows “pockets of innovation,” the pathways ideas take to become products, and the interplay of academia and industry.
However, looking at the maps reveals that quite a bit of information is missing and undocumented. Besides the authors, are there other networks that influence science?
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science
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