Catalog of Rare Diseases
The goal is to create an online catalog of 230 rare diseases, using the d3 javascript library and the web audio API. Currently it's a fixed-media music composition based on a Max patch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DtO6oasmE8). The code here is a sunburst chart made with d3, based on this Observable notebook: https://observablehq.com/d/406232d3d1d682bb
The radius of each arc corresponds to the number of genes associated with each disease ("Ngenes" on the spreadsheet). Other information is displayed on mouseover.
Next I want to add sound to this chart, so if you click on a disease, you can hear its DNA promoter sequence. The background harmony comes from each category of disease; on the chart, these are colors.
Data courtesy of Dr. Aditi Kantipuly, who is collaborating on this project; and thanks to Quinn Ouyang and Sally (Kexin) Xue for expert programming help.