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Protein Music SamplesPosts: Joined: 2005-12-24
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It's not quite Beethoven's 5th, but a pair of molecular biologists has transformed the complex sequence of a protein into music. Reporting online 3 May in Genome Biology, the duo assigned a musical note to each amino acid--the building blocks of proteins. The team polished the process by assigning quarter, eighth, and half notes to the three codons that encode each amino acid. Besides being music to a biologist's ears, the researchers hope the minisymphonies will aid vision-impaired scientists and entice a new generation to molecular genetics
Algorithmic Arts
Submitted on Mon, 2007-09-03 03:01
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