Today was open doors day at the lab where we let the public in to see what we spend millions on each year.
Our lab (the computational biologists) threw together[1] an exhibit called the Genome Scroller that wanders it's way along the whole human genome, illustrating various bits as it goes.
[1] Threw together is a bit of an understatement. It was a considerable amount of work to get all the information to synchronise and display properly over 9 screens, including a 'gene timetable' that tells you how long till the next gene appears int he genome.
Here is a shot of part of it in action, click to get to the rest of my pics from todays exhibits.
