Did you always want to get your own personal Student Council coffee mug or T-shirt? You can now buy these and many other Student Council-branded items in the ISCB Student Council Shop.

And even better: With every item your order from the shop you will be supporting our work! All proceeds from the Student Council Shop will go directly to fund our community activities.

Currently, we are offering a series of items that feature the "Twenty Characters" artwork, which was voted the best contribution at the Art & Science Exhibition at ISMB/ECCB 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden. The artist, Kristian Rother, has kindly agreed to let the Student Council use his piece and derivated works on selected items in our shop.

The chemical structures of the amino acids were used to construct a set of 20 characters as an alternative one-letter-code. All important properties, like charges, aromaticity and sidechain size are represented in the symbols. Therefore, this character set allows perceiving similarity on a chemical level more directly than the Latin characters commonly used.

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