There’s music in our genes
I recently stumbled upon this paper:
Conversion of amino-acid sequence in proteins to classical music: search for auditory patterns
Rie Takahashi & Jeffrey H Miller
Genome Biology 2007, *8*:405
_”The primary goal of this work is to convert genome-encoded protein sequences into musical notes in order to hear auditory protein patterns.”_
This is an interesting - and unique - approach to analyzing protein sequences. They’ve taken many things into consideration, including codon distribution and amino acid frequency. They’ve developped rules for rhythm, range, dynamics and note lengths. Unlike previous efforts which have tried to directly translate an amino acid to a musical note, this approach uses chords and musical rules to generate these compositions.
Posted: July 8th, 2007 under bioinformatics, unique.
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