* DNA name bracelet
Posted on November 4th, 2007 by maitreya. Filed under Jewelry.
This might be the geekiest thing I’ve ever made: an ID bracelet coded in DNA.
The Wikipedia Genetic code entry has a table to break the code or encode your own name (U=>T if you prefer DNA to RNA). Note that not all letters are represented since there are only 20 amino acids plus X for stop. You can also go see if some genome already contains your name, by entering it in this DNA search page. No MAITREYAs yet, but there are still lots of things left to sequence!
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November 4th, 2007 at 5:52 am
That is such a cool idea! Does it fit well around your wrist? [Having a long name would entail a necklace perhaps!]
November 4th, 2007 at 11:18 am
haha, that’s awesome
November 10th, 2007 at 12:34 am
wow, that’s super nerdly. i love it.
my husband is doing his phd in molecular genetics: zebrafish. he liked your bracelet too.
November 10th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
that’s so quirky. i like the way you think.
November 11th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Wow, this is so interesting! For a moment, I had a thought about binary coding names.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Brilliant!
November 13th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Brilliant!
November 15th, 2007 at 11:15 am
i laughed out loud when i saw this piece! geeks unite.
November 29th, 2007 at 10:30 am
This is amazingly awesome.
you have taken geekery to a higher level.
December 17th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
about 10 years ago, i was taking a painting class, and we had to make a ‘non-representational’ self portrait (ie, we weren’t supposed to paint a picture of ourself.)
i stitched together several panels with images relating to what was going on in my life at the time- one of which was a DNA sequencing ladder that when translated into the amino acid code spelled out my first and last names- which coincidentally enough all fit within the 20 amino acid limit. (i had just finished sequencing a number of Drosophila genes in the laboratory).
so it’s cool to see you doing the same kind of thing here!
i might post a photo of mine on my blog this week if you want to check it out.
January 18th, 2008 at 6:53 am
but not every letter of the alfabet is included in those tables right?
January 18th, 2008 at 6:54 am
but not every letter of the alfabet is included in those tables right?
October 12th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
This site:
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/schools/decode/
..Helped me out a lot. Since not every letter is represented in DNA/RNA, that site will give you the closest represented.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
That’s so awesome! Why don’t I ever think of things like this?
January 17th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Haha, I bet this bracelet gets a lot of comments, and is a great conversation starter. If you don’t scare them away with your geekiness, its the perfect ice breaker.