Forum:Vintage / unconventional pictures for Bioinformatics

Question

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

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?

[h.mon]

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

Answer 1

[pevsner]

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

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

Answer 2

[Mary]

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.

Answer 3

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

NucleotideSequences 86 87 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NucleotideSequences_86_87.jpeg

Answer 4

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

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.

Answer 5

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NCBI_Entrez_CD_1996.jpg

NCBI Entrez CD 1996

Answer 6

[pevsner]

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.

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

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

Answer 7

[Mary]

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.

Here is the proof. The rat organismal Venn diagram. @DanGraur pic.twitter.com/NbVhFIybp5

— Lior Pachter (@lpachter) October 28, 2014

[onuralp]

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

Any idea where we can get one?

[Mary]

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.

[onuralp]

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

[Mary]

Here's the paper version: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v428/n6982/fig_tab/nature02426_F7.html

[onuralp]

Thank you, Mary!

Answer 8

[pevsner]

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.

Answer 9

[mikhail.shugay]

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:))

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

Answer 10

[Siva]

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

Introducing the National Center for Biotechnology

Answer 11

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

Genbank 100: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Genbank100CD.jpg

Answer 12

[Illinu]

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

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

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

Answer 13

[Woa]

http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/history.htm

http://www.umass.edu/molvis/francoeur/levinthal/lev-index.html

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

very cool thanks !

Answer 14

[Neilfws]

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

Answer 15

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

via @atulbutte

Teaching toddlers about oligonucleotide synthesis... with beads! Wish it were this easy in real life! #basf14 pic.twitter.com/hI2uauWX6a

— Atul Butte (@atulbutte) November 1, 2014

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

Answer 16

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Genbank63FloppyDisk.jpg

Answer 17

[onuralp]

Multi-sample SNP calling circa 1994 by Casey Bergman

Answer 18

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

.@eperlste ...and before that, you could publish sequences in your abstract pic.twitter.com/OGcp6AX6Ce

— Casey Bergman (@caseybergman) December 9, 2014

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Answer 19

[Mary]

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

"W. Goad in front of a terminal accessing the GenBank c. 1983" http://t.co/GGMOmUzha3 via https://t.co/OzKvf02GUL pic.twitter.com/gHyNUcfFxS

— Pierre Lindenbaum (@yokofakun) December 27, 2014

[Casey Bergman]

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.

Answer 20

[YOT]

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

Answer 21

[Mary]

I laughed.

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

The BEST journal cover ever @OfficialSMBE http://t.co/eojUOpMZ3W

— James McInerney (@jomcinerney) May 10, 2015

Answer 22

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

Personally I never trusted these floppy disks, @embl tapes ftw! pic.twitter.com/cyBVphcWMN

— Cédric Lood (@AlterSid) March 21, 2018