Stories by Martin Krzywinski

Martin Krzywinski is a staff scientist at Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Center.

Genetics

See How Scientists Put Together the Complete Human Genome

For the first time, researchers have sequenced all 3,117,275,501 bases of our genetic code

August 21, 2022 — Clara Moskowitz and Martin Krzywinski

The Sciences

In Silico Flurries

Computing a world of snowflakes

December 23, 2017 — Martin Krzywinski and Jake Lever

The Evolution of a Scientific American Infographic: Secret Life in Household Dust

Designers Martin Krzywinski and Barbara Jeannie Hunnicutt provide a peek behind the scenes, and explain how they developed a data visualization based on bacterial genome information derived from dust...

December 7, 2015 — Martin Krzywinski and Barbara Jeannie Hunnicutt

Evolution

Similarities Between Human and Chimp Genomes Revealed by Hilbert Curve

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Martin Krzywinski, a contributing artist who designed the Graphic Science illustration in the September issue of Scientific American magazine...

August 19, 2014 — Martin Krzywinski

Public Health

Virus Mutations Reveal How COVID-19 Really Spread

Globe-trotting humans were the culprits

— Mark Fischetti and Martin Krzywinski