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DHL Uses Circos

Deutsche Post DHL uses Circos in a printed advertisement for the Mail & Logistics Group

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Circos Collaborates with Wired

When Wired needed an inforgraphic to illustrate the complex world of relationships on the TV Series Lost, it turned to Circos.

In collaboration with Christy Sheppard, Wired's Art Director, Martin Krzywinski created the illustration for the April 22 2010 issue.

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DHL Uses Circos

Deutsche Post DHL uses Circos in a printed advertisement for the Mail & Logistics Group

// dhl

Circos Collaborates with Wired

When Wired needed an inforgraphic to illustrate the complex world of relationships on the TV Series Lost, it turned to Circos.

In collaboration with Christy Sheppard, Wired's Art Director, Martin Krzywinski created the illustration for the April 22 2010 issue.

// wired-01

Circos Collaborates with Wired

When Wired needed an inforgraphic to illustrate the complex world of relationships on the TV Series Lost, it turned to Circos.

The task was to visually represent about 60 relationships shared between 35 characters. The tableviewer utility, which applies Circos to visualizing tabular data, was perfect for creating the illustration. And thus, Circos says goodbye to the table.

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Circos Maps Cancer Landscapes

Nature features an article by Heidi Ledford, The Cancer Genome Challenge, which discusses the progress and challenges of identifying structural variation signatures in cancer genomes.

Circos images are used throughout the piece, taken from the COSMIC project (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer).

6Ledford H 2010 Big science: The cancer genome challenge Nature 464 (7291) 972-974.

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Circos Maps Cancer Landscapes

Nature features an article by Heidi Ledford, The Cancer Genome Challenge, which discusses the progress and challenges of identifying structural variation signatures in cancer genomes.

Circos images are used throughout the piece, taken from the COSMIC project (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer).

6Ledford H 2010 Big science: The cancer genome challenge Nature 464 (7291) 972-974.

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Circos Collaborates with Wired

When Wired needed an inforgraphic to illustrate the complex world of relationships on the TV Series Lost, it turned to Circos.

The task was to visually represent about 60 relationships shared between 35 characters. The tableviewer utility, which applies Circos to visualizing tabular data, was perfect for creating the illustration.

// wired-03

For other references to Circos usage and items of note, see examples of published images and Circos citations.

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Showing categories: art (3 items)
2 November 2009
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I've just received news that the Chromosomes exhibition by David Cronenberg, which uses Circos illustrations and my contribution to text, will be staged in Estoril (Portugal) during the film festival.

Circos - Circular Genome Data Visualization (600 x 600)

The project also toured in Rome, Turin and Lisbon

The Film Festival of Estoril and Volumina are pleased to announce the new staging of multimedia exhibition CHROMOSOMES by David Cronenberg. During the opening (november, 10) will be present Cronenberg, that for a moment abandons the role of director (he is working on the new film 'The Matarese Circle') to present himself as artist. Inside the Congress Center of Estoril, from 5 to 14 november, you can admire the images chosen and processed by David Cronenberg and the Volumina staff starting with original film frames from his most famous movies: The Fly, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, Spider, and the recent Eastern Promises. The exhibition, curated by Domenico De Gaetano is completed by two 10-minute videos with famous sequences from Cronenberg's movies and a bilingual catalogue. One room is entirely dedicated to the installation RED CARS, in homage to the Ferrari, based on the artbook that was realized in 2005 and on rare archival footage..

10 December 2008
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I received my copy of the Chromosomes artbook by Volumina, for which I contributed genomic visualizations. Below are the scans of the front and the back of the book. David Cronenberg's son, Brandon Cronenberg, contributed his interpretation of chromosomes as machines of genetics - each page of the book has a unique chromosome interpretation in steam punk style.

Chromosomes - David Cronenberg - by Volumina (600 x 793)
11 October 2008
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In collaboration with Volumina, Circos was used to generate illustrations for Chromosomes exhibition, an art book of still images from David Cronenberg films.

Illustrations created with Circos used in Chromosomes, an exhibition by David Cronenberg. (500 x 508)

I had the opportunity to contribute not only the art work, but text for this book as well.

Illustrations created with Circos used in Chromosomes, an exhibition by David Cronenberg. (800 x 267)

We fear the unknown. Monsters and creatures are words we give to the most frightening unknown of all — the biological. Things living — primitive, unpredictable, ravenous and without recourse to emotion or reason. Clutching reason and humanity, we congratulate ourselves for having departed those base instincts.

But our departure is neither recent nor complete. Inside each of us is a history of our evolutionary ancestors, written in our chromosomes. The ant has 2. The house fly, 12. Humans have 46, a dog has 78 and in a fern, there are over 1,000. Chromosomes are the superblocks of genetic organization and heredity. They are an organism's contact list of its evolutionary ancestors.

Many of these ancestors were not different from monsters and creatures that inhabit our nightmares, our fears and our movies. And as the lights come on, and projections from the screen yield to reality, our body harbors elements from a darker past. Like the Alu genetic element, a jumping-gene which repeatedly copies itself within our genome and a constant companion to our evolution for the past 65 million years. In every part of every chromosome is our creature heritage.

Although we emerged in human from our mother's womb, as embryos we exhibited our evolutionary history: we all had gills, a tail, and body hair. Lost or absorbed before birth, these signposts remind us that our ancestors are inside us, not just in stories or movies. It is only later that the brain, our species' most prized possession, develops and transforms us. In the last minute, we pass into humanity and into the world. Today, we tell stories of monsters and creatures. Tomorrow, we may take their place. Distant from now, our progeny will see our forms during development and say "What creatures we were." Movies will frighten by showing our forms. "Look, mommy, a smooth-skinned biped with wide eyes."