DNA and Proteins: Life Music

Ariaeenejad, Shohreh; Kavousi, Kaveh

DNA and Proteins: Life Music

Document Type : Promotion Article

Authors

Shohreh Ariaeenejad ¹
kaveh Kavousi ²

¹ Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran, karaj, Iran

² Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Independent research works reveal the existence of rhythmic oscillations in various natural phenomena which are convertible to musical compositions in different ways. In this work a brief survey on extracted music from biological sequences such as DNA and its mysterious products «proteins» has been presented. In this regard two dominant aspects are investigated, the inspired music from DNA and the inspired music from protein sequences. In the first aspect, different methods based on infrared frequencies of DNA nucleotide bases and in the second point of view, the methods which use protein sequences for composing music are described. Among the related methods, using Morse code theory for protein sonification is explained with more details. These methods help us to understand how it is possible to convey information from molecular biological sequences to human kind ears. Final section discuses about possible physiological manifestations through natural phenomena and molecular biological sequences and explains our perception from closely related links between nature and music.

Keywords

20.1001.1.2008935.1389.01.1.6.5

References

[1] Carlyle,T. , Kenneth, G.M., Brattin, J.J. and M. Engel.(1840). On Heroes,Hero-Worship & the Heroic in History,California, USA.
[2] Oberst, T. (2005). BlindGraduate Student ‘Reads’Maps Using CU Software that Converts Color intoSound. Cornell Chronicle 6-5 ,36.
[3] D.Cyranoski,d.(2005). Japan Plays Trump Card to Get Kids into Science. Nature 726,,435.
[4] Miller, J.N.(1982).The Biochemists’ Songbook by Harold Baum Pergamon, Michigan,USA.
[5] Huey,G. , Alexander, S., Pogosian, L.( 2001).Quintessence and Variation of the Fine Structure Constant in the CMBR, Physical Review D 083001 ,65.
[6] Ohno, S., Ohno, M.( 1986) The all Pervasive Principle of Repetitious Recurrence Governs Not Only Coding Sequence Construction But Also Human Endeavor in Musical Composition. Immunogenetics 78-71 ,24.
[7] Gena, P., Strom, C.(1995). Musical Synthesis of DNA Sequences, XI Colloquio di Informatica Musicale, 204-203
[8] Gena, P., Strom, C.( 2001). A Physiological Aapproach to DNA Music.Glasgow, UK: Glasgow School of Art Press, 134-129.
[9] Alexjander, S., Deamer, D.( 1999). The Infrared Frequencies of DNA Bases: Science and Art,IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, 79-74 ,(2)18.
[10] Hayashi, K., Munakata, N. ( 1985). Basically Musical, Nature 5973(1984) ,310.
[11] Manning, P.( 1985). Electronic and Computer Music Oxford University Press,USA.
[12] Takahashi, R., Miller, J.H.(2007). Conversion of Amino-Acid Sequence in Proteins to Classical Music: Search for Auditory Patterns. Genome Biol 405, 8.
[13] Shi, S.J., Cai, Y.Y., Chan, C.W.( 2007). Electronic Music for Bio-Molecules Using Short Music Phrases. Leonardo, MIT Press 141-137 ,40.
[14] Dunn,J., Clark, M.A.( 1999). Life Music: the Sonification of Proteins,Leonardo ,32 32-25(1999).
[15] Hance, B.D (1996) Art Eexhibit to Showcase Musical Works Based on Genetic Sequences, Arizona Daily Wildcat 5)31).
[16] Jensen,E., Rusay. R.(2001).Musical Representations of the Fibonacci String and Proteins Using Mathematica. Mathematica 55)8).
[17] Takahashi, R., Miller, J.H.( 2007). Conversion of amino-acid sequence in proteins to classical music:search for auditory patterns, Genome Biology 405)8).
[18] Estes, C.A(2004).Promoting Student- Centred Learning in Experiential Education. Journal of Experiential Education 161-141 ,27.