DNA Rainbow

The pattern of bases from Chromosome 1, the largest human chromosome. Look at the circle in the middle of the picture and close your eyes just a little bit. Strange structures will occur.

Scientists involved with the DNA Rainbow project color-coded each base of the human chromosome. Every chromosome is a long and continuous piece of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) which contains many genes and other elements. The backbone of the DNA carries four types of molecules called bases (adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine). The sequence of these four bases encodes the information and is the genetic code of all of us. The scientists took the genetic code from huge data files and assigned a color to every of the four bases. Then they rendered these fascinating pictures, showing the genetic code of humans in color. (Information from DNA Rainbow)