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Re:Visualizing the Similarity of Human and Chimp DNA by mjburgess on Saturday October 03, 2015 @04:41AM (#10323134)
It doesnt seem like a lot of thought has gone into making the colour / drawing choice actually visually significant. Eg. given blue is much harder to see here than red, are we over-estimating similarity because there is a lot of red?

I suspect they need to talk to some visualization & human vision people to make this compelling.

Re:Visualizing the Similarity of Human and Chimp DNA by pvinis on Saturday October 03, 2015 @08:51AM (#10323673)
Like Pepe said below, each letter spawns in a specific diredtion, so A, or red, always goes up, and you can check that in the beginning, where there are only few lines. so the final shape is more important than color. the color is basically irrelevant, except for the fact that maybe you can see which of A, C, G, T appears more times in that dna sequence.