4 Services Offering Genetic Art

Genetic analysis is becoming more widespread and less expensive every day. There are a few companies out now that are taking advantage of this and offering its customers unique, personal, and completely biologically sound art based on their genetic code.

DNA 11

DNA 11 is easily the most popular and successful of the various services available. They provide a kit that takes saliva from your mouth and, based on your package configuration, will produce modern, contemporary art directly from your genetic information. They also provide fingerprint and lip-print art. The art is very much a direct representation of the customer’s genetic material.

DNA Art Forms

DNA Art Forms produces more abstract-style genetic representation in their products. The products from this company are more “art” than hard “science,” but each piece of art is directly connected to the customer’s genetic information. This is a great example of combining traditional art and science into one product.

My Gene Image

My Gene Image is similar to DNA 11 in their products, except that instead of taking a gel electrophoresis image and turning it into art, it takes the actual nucleotide sequence of a gene and prints it, in order, in front of an artistic image.

Web2DNA

This may not be a for-sale art company or based on actual genetic information, but this web project is a very interesting implementation of the genetic-art style in web art. It takes a website and, based on the coding structure, creates a gel electrophoresis-style image.

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