The Well-Tempered Dinoflagellate: Luciferous DNA
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Moren, Lisa, and Tsvetan Bachvaroff. “The Well-Tempered Dinoflagellate.” https://www.lisamoren.com/dna.
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Dr. Tsvetan Bachvaroff [Tsetso] is a DNA sequencer committed to sequencing the Chesapeake Bay because, as he says, “you can’t solve Bay problems if you don’t know what’s in it.” In this project, Tsetso contributed the DNA of the dinoflagellate [pyrosistis] algae specifically responsible for bioluminescence. The ten-page Word file of “agct” patterns was transposed into a music file [midi] via an open-source algorithm.