I recently designed a couple of logos for Dr. J. Christopher Ellis to adorn his biological database website. I thought I’d throw him a link as well as showcase the two logos I made.

The first is for the frontpage of his site evolveathome.com. I made this using the 3D animation software, Maya 7, and Flash. Note: if you click on the logo, there are three possible animations that will occur. I know next to nothing about flash animation, but I managed to get it so that it picks one of the three events at random. As such, you may have to click several times to see all three. Yes – they are completely pointless – but I wanted to learn at least a little ActionScript. The pixelation is due to resizing to fit into this blog.

I also designed the following logo for his snoRNP database. For those of you not in the know, snoRNP stands for “small nucleolar ribonucleoprotein”, which bind to snoRNAs, or “small nucleolar ribonucleic acids”. Together they are involved in modifying rRNAs, or “ribosomal ribonucleic acids”, which are themselves part of the structure and function of the ribosome (your protein making machines).

So for those of you involved in snoRNA research, you may find his database useful. He also has a couple of applets for finding motifs within UTRs (untranslated regions). FYI: the sites are still in early construction.

The snoRNP Database