Multiscale meta shape grammar objects for "...a grain of sand turns the balance" and ATLAS in silico

This aesthetically impelled work explores the use of dimensional glyphs generated by a custom meta-shape grammar algorithm to visually differentiate individual records from a massive meta-genomics dataset comprised of 17.4 million sequences and place them in a human context to reflect on the digitization of nature and culture. The Global Ocean Sampling Expedition, conducted by the J. Craig Venter Institute, studies genetics of communities of marine microorganisms throughout the world's oceans, which sequester carbon from the atmosphere with potentially significant effects on global climate. The vast dataset contains DNA sequences, 17.4 million associated, predicted amino-acid sequences called ORFs (Open Reading Frames) along with a series of metadata descriptors.