This was an exhibit that I worked on. The kiosk is at the Exploratorium, in the Life Sciences section. For this project, I audited a bioinformatics class at UC Berkeley. This got me started with working with genomic information. The kiosk runs off Flash/PHP/Mysql. I created a database of all the genes in the human genome, which pulled in a few different databases (HUGO, and some ontologies.) The flash interface included an easy to access 'Gene Searcher' which let museum visitors put ATCG... and find genes with their sequence of letters. The gene results (most of the genes!) were organized by 'interestingness' - and so for the first few genes that came up, our content writer Jennifer Frazier found really cool, relevant genes, such as the genes for hair color...and so those would come up first. That project was a lot of fun, because it made genetic information accessible. Here are some screenshots...