DECIPHERING HUMAN CHROMOSOME 16:
INDEX TO THE REPORT
Sarah Jacobs
information as material, 2007

The ebook Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here and the accompanying paper volume, Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: Index to the Report use text in a visual way to document the ethical, economic, political and philosophical polemics associated with mapping the human genome.
The Report contains links to over 250 websites collected in the months following publication in the journal Nature of “The sequence and analysis of duplication-rich human chromosome 16”*. Its contents change over time as the websites change, migrate or disappear. It is available as a free download here (The book will open in full screen.  If you want to leave the full screen and download the book, push ESC).
The Index sets fragments collected from the websites against the background of the earlier draft sequence originally published by Project Gutenberg.
The solid physicality of the Index contrasts with the ever changing Report but paradoxically vagaries of the printing process ensure that each copy of the Index is unique.