Your life, spelled
with A T G C.
HELIX is a public genomics lab. Behind this text, one molecule of DNA turns at atomic proportions — every rung a base pair, every colour a letter. Scroll and you read it.
Chromosome 11 · sense strandposition 5,227,002
Locus 1 / 4 · 11p15.4
HBB
Beta-globin: 147 amino acids that carry oxygen. Change the sixth codon and you have sickle-cell — one letter, an entire life rewritten.
1,606 bp · GAG → GTGThree billion letters,
in every cell you have.
2 mof DNA uncoiled from a single cell nucleus
3.1 bnbase pairs in one human genome copy
~20,000protein-coding genes — fewer than a grape has
99.9%identical between any two people on Earth