Brinedew's Shortform
Oct 34
This is an introduction to Iconoplasm, a project where every gene is humanized into an anthropomorphic character (gijinka). Back in 2013, Scott Alexander wrote in Extreme mnemonics: > JS-154 is one of five metabolic products of netamine; however, the enzyme that produces it is unknown. It is manufactured in cells...
https://geneguessr.brinedew.bio/ Inspired by Geoguessr and Wordle, this is a free web game where you get shown a random human protein each day, and you have to triangulate its gene name using similarity clues. My background is in wet lab biology and I intend this to be comprehensible mostly to other...