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Net_Music_Weekly: A Protein Primer

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Helen
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calmodulin.gifIn an earlier NMR Weekly, I wrote that UCLA molecular biologists had turned protein sequences into original compositions of classical music. For those who may be interested, there is now A Protein Primer- A Musical Introduction to Protein Structure which talks about the 20 different amino acids incorporated into proteins that can be assigned to musical scales.

The duration of each note varies with the number of DNA codons associated with the amino acid. The DNA codons are represented by a harp playing the three bases of each codon under its amino acid. The last three codons to sound are stop codons and do not correspond to any amino acid. Here’s a sample Amino Acid scale:


Aug 7, 2007
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  1. Scot Gresham-Lancaster:

    They better be careful ;-)
    from slashdot.org
    “Two lawyers have patented generating music from a DNA sequence. According to the patent, it covers ‘music generated by decoding and transcribing genetic information within a DNA sequence into a music signal having melody and harmony.’ A comment to the blog post mentions DNA-derived music being performed at a conference in 1995.”
    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/31/0045213&from=rss

    Aug 7, 22:11

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