DNA animation (2002-2014) by Drew Berry and Etsuko Uno wehi.tv #ScienceArt

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anm89 · 2020-11 · Strong recommendation

The thing that drove this home for me were the biovisions animations which got me to go back and basically learn high school biology. Seeing the mechanical nature of gene transciption and chemical signaling blew my mind. [VIDEO] [LINK] On the other hand, I don't buy his thing about wishing his high school teacher had presented it differently. No on else can make you interested in this stuff. The best they can do is provide resources like the ones above.

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jwgarber · 2026-07 · Recommendation

I'm working on a project in malaria genetics this summer, and I was shocked to find out that the entire analysis toolkit is entirely based on math and statistics (and some non-trivial stuff too, e.g. hidden Markov models to predict CNV). Genotype likelihoods throw an extra wrench into the process, since even basic stuff like predicting allele frequencies requires a maximum likelihood estimator instead of simple counting. This whole area was quite eye-opening, and I'm still amazed that reading billions of base-pairs in DNA sequencing reliably works. Also gotta shout out to these incredible molecular animations by WEHI: [VIDEO]

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bhagyeshsp · 2026-04 · Recommendation

What a beautiful depiction. Reminds me of high fidelity 3D animation videos I used to watch about DNA replication, cell signalling etc. One of the most fascinating parts to me was DNA transcription. The engineering is quite precise. Found the video I was referring to: [VIDEO]

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