“Swine Flu Hemagglutinin”: amino acid sequence as ambient music | Stephan Zielinski: Dwa
Swine flu has been sequenced. More out of curiosity than anything else, I wrote code to translate a key gene into a piece of ambient music:
Swine Flu Hemagglutinin (mp3, 6.7 megabytes)
The algorithm I used is a bit complicated, but just in case you’re curious: since the gene is expressed as a surface protein antibodies can sense, it’s considered as a string of amino acids. Each beat corresponds to one amino acid, and the piece is in 3/4 time, so each six measures would correspond to five turns around the alpha structure.
And now we have the sound of Swine Flu. And it sound rather nice… 😉
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April 30, 2009 at 10:33 pm |
Great Idea…I liked the way you have assigned different nodes to different Amino Acids on their Properties.
I have worked on Sendai Virus Hemaglutinin Neuraminidase for last 3 years,We have also proposed and published 3-D model for the same.
Will you be interested in converting this sequence in Music too?
I liked it !!!
Rahul Gupta
MS Bioinformatics
Indiana University
Bloomington
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May 1, 2009 at 7:11 pm |
I am not the person that did this, but thanks for commenting. Check the link at the top of the post for the original post.
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May 1, 2009 at 6:13 am |
Sounds like a beginner band piece. Kind of halting, kind of haunting. Rather cool! Hope I never catch it, but listening to it isn’t half bad….
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