Forum:Vintage / unconventional pictures for Bioinformatics
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I'm looking for Vintage / unconventional pictures for Bioinformatics.

Feel free to add an URL to the picture below. If you're the owner of the picture, tell me if I you allow me to upload the picture on wikipedia commons.

Please, don't upvote my answers.

See also: Bioinformatic Cartoon

PS: e.g: do you have a picture of a printed version of the GCG manual somewhere?

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No one has a punch-card of an early bioinfo program?

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pevsner ▴ 420

Eck and Dayhoff (1966) (Yes, ok with me to upload elsewhere)

http://pevsnerlab.kennedykrieger.org/Graphics/EckDayhoff.html


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Mary 11k

Report on the Use of Computers in Biology and Medicine. 1960. Robert Ledley had trained as a dentist, but moved to computers as they were coming along. Margaret Dayhoff worked with him, and they were the 2 authors on the COMPROTEIN paper in 1962.

http://books.google.com/books?id=J5grAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP1&output=html You can download a PDF.

Edit to note: I don't know what the legal status of report covers is.

Report on the Use of Computers in Biology and Medicine, 1960

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wellcome_genome_bookcase.png The first printout of the human genome to be presented as a series of books, displayed in the 'Medicine Now' room at the Wellcome Collection, London.

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pevsner ▴ 420

Here’s the GCG manual (it cost $4,000 for an academic license in 1995). It's ok with me for you to upload this to wikimedia commons.

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uploaded on WP: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GCGPackageManual.jpg . I'm not sure wether there is a license issue here...

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Mary 11k

I would say this falls into the unconventional file. But it cracks me up, and if someone used it in a presentation I think it would be fun.

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Hilarious! :) Who would have thought that someone' would challenge the renowned six-way Venn diagram!

Any idea where we can get one?

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Well, that's what that whole thread on twitter was about--who launched the organism Venn craze. And the rat genome team thinks it was them. This was their evidence. Apparently this really is a vintage item, I don't think it's available anywhere.

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Ah, I see! It should not be too hard to reproduce the figure, I'll give a try. :)

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Thank you, Mary!

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pevsner ▴ 420

And this is the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF) Atlas of Protein and Genomic Sequences (June 30, 1994). It was designed to access data from PIR. Also ok to upload this to Wikimedia commons.

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Maybe an off-topic, but here is a vintage Hi-C image from "Spatial organization of the Drosophila nucleus: a three-dimensional cytogenetic study" J Cell Sci Suppl 1984:))

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Compare to this one from Cell 2012 ("Three-dimensional folding and functional organization principles of the Drosophila genome")

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Siva ★ 1.9k

Mark Boguski has an interesting webpage on the History & Philosophy of Computational and Genome Biology

Introducing the National Center for Biotechnology

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Illinu ▴ 110

Voila the link but still doesn't show the pic here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GATC.JPG

You can use it if you like

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Thanks. I've just added categories to your picture https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:GATC.JPG&action=history

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very cool thanks !

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Neilfws 49k

There are some good images over at the EBI 20th anniversary gallery.

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via @atulbutte

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teaching_toddlers_about_oligonucleotide_synthesis_with_beads.jpg

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Mary 11k

I just came across this paper, and the images were new to me. I love the one of accessing GenBank in 1983. But there is also one of amino acid beads and computer code from 1962.

The Experimenter's Museum: GenBank, Natural History, and the Moral Economies of Biomedicine

Bruno Strasser

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/658657

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I love this photo (& this article). I've been planning to use it in an unpublished blog post and have done a little digging into it in the past. By my reckoning, Goad is looking at the human preproenkephalin locus, GenBank J00122, based on the primary sequence and length of the accession.

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YOT ▴ 30

Check this site to inspire you http://www.dnadarwin.org/

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Mary 11k

I laughed.

Lizards playing poker. Has kind of a vintage vibe and a bioinformatics vibe.

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