by Janie — Re­cently I stum­bled across Si­mon Berger's shat­tered glass art­work, and was re­minded of RNA-seq and tran­scrip­tomics, of all things. The Swiss artist's pieces each be­gin with a large pane of glass. He shat­ters the pane, some­times by heavy blows via ham­mer that gen­er­ate large frag­ments...