What happens when you cross the human genome with clever algorithms and some enormous freaking laser beams?

A collaboration between the industrious burners of Ooligan Alley, the International Arts Megacrew, and the Rothberg Institute for Childhood Diseases, made the world's first public genome broadcast via laser at Burning Man 2013.

Dr Jonathan Rothberg (inventor of high-speed genome sequencing) and Dr Charles Townes (inventor of the laser and Nobel Prize winner) were the first people to have their genomes broadcast via laser.

This happened thanks also to the founding supporters of our crowd-funding campaign.

All of the software created for the project is open source and freely available on Github.

Genome Laser is proud to have featured in WIRED and Huffington Post!

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