Monthly Archives: August 2010

The Golden Angle

I became interested in the golden angle, because I was impressed by Aeonium plants I saw in Madeira and I wanted to model these plants. Continue reading

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Visualizing genomes

In this post I will present a very figurative way for visualizing genomes. Continue reading

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Ectomycorrhiza/ericoid mycorrhiza

Ectomycorrhiza and ericoid mycorrhiza are further forms of interactions of plant roots and fungi, which have evolved independently and at a later time points compared to arbuscular mycorrhiza. There are still more types of such interactions, but these three forms … Continue reading

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Visualizing chromosomes

Chromosomes are large DNA-molecules containing the information for huge numbers of genes. Although we are dealing with a completely different scale, when compared to the visualization of genes, we are having exactly the same problem: A linear sequence of huge amounts of data. Continue reading

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Visualizing genes

DNA is the biological way of storing information, the equivalent to a computer’s main disk. This post will try to focus on this side of DNA and how it can be visualized. Continue reading

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Fractals

Fractals are repetitive, self-similar structures, often observed in nature… Continue reading

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Arbuscular mycorrhiza

Arbuscular mycorrhiza is a very ancient interaction dating back to the time, when the very first land plants colonized the main land… Continue reading

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