The following text is a random fragment of the domestic cat genome.

Cathair Press
DNA-zine


Japanese eel’s (Anguilla japonica) genome data


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The eel print

Translated 986696369 base pairs,
19 chromosomes of a Japanese eel into CMYK pixels using a Processing script

Adenine to cyan, Cytosine to magenta, Guanine to yellow, Thymine to black pixels Unknown areas remained as white stripes.

Data from National Research Institute of Fisheries Science

Digital print on recycled papers,
190 mm x 190 mm, 19 pages, each indicating a chromosome

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The eel print
The eel print
The eel print
The eel print

Featured in Interspecies Library, At the Center for Book Arts, New York

The eel print