LabAutomation 2006 - SLAS

Where Laboratory Technologies Emerge and Merge
8:30 am Tuesday, January 24, 2006 Plenary Session Room: Primrose Ballroom
Palm Springs Convention Center
William S. Rees
Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency
william.rees@dhs.gov
HSARPA’s Chemical Countermeasures Programs
This will highlight the existing programs within HSARPA pertaining to the chemical countermeasures portfolio. There will also be material
outlining any future solicitations.
9:15 am Tuesday, January 24, 2006 Plenary Session Room: Primrose Ballroom
Palm Springs Convention Center
Ruth West
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California
rwest@ncmir.ucsd.edu
Artistic Approaches to High-Dimensional Visualization: The Ecce Homology Project
Vast amounts of genomic data are created as part of the genome sequencing efforts ongoing globally. This high-throughput data production
facilitates a shift from hypothesis-driven to discovery-based science. With this shift comes the need to create ways of extracting information
and deriving knowledge from ever-increasing amounts of data continued in world-wide databases. Ecce Homology is an artwork that
offers an alternative approach to visualizing and interacting with large amounts of genomic data. This physically interactive new-media
work visualizes genetic data as calligraphic forms. A novel computer-vision interface allows multiple participants, through their movement
in the installation space, to select genes from the human genome for visualizing the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST), a primary
algorithm in comparative genomics. The project also demonstrates the potential for novelty that collaboration between the arts and sciences
can create and the possibility for the arts to nurture discovery in the sciences. For more information please visit: http://www.insilicov1.org
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