I gen­er­ated this image from the genetic code of a California case of H1N1 (posted today by the CDC). I fed the data into my color tools project, and assigned one color for each base found in DNA: ade­nine (A), cyto­sine (C), gua­nine (G) and thymine (T). The col­ors were cho­sen by search­ing ColourLovers for each of those base names and using the top result, i.e. the “best” col­ors for A, C, G, and T, accord­ing to ColourLovers.