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Creational Theology: Molecular Biologists Convert Protein Sequences Into Classical Music

May 22nd 2007
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Filed under: Brainwaves, Creational Theology, FullyAlive

Here’s a lovely little way to start your day. A group of molecular biologists at UCLA have turned human protein sequences (assigning chord and note values to amino acids) into music. Rhythm is dictated by the protein sequence. Here the news item at Science Daily:

ScienceDaily: Molecular Biologists Convert Protein Sequences Into Classical Music

And here are samples for listening:

Gene2Music Project

What determines it to be named “classical?” I know not.

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  1. man, I don’t know even what to say…

    Was tempted to start with jokes about too much grant money, then something about setting music to the synthesized rhythm of the printer spewing out jobs here…
    But I’ll just say wow…

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