music & DNA

[David A. Adler]

In article <42n77d$1d6g at serra.unipi.it> vassallo at cli.di.unipi.it (Fabrizio  
Vassallo) writes:
> Hallo!
> Have anyone heard of relations betw. music & DNA?
> please post me
> 
> Fabrizio

Susumo Ohno has done some work on representing DNA/protein sequences as
musical notes - as a start see for example:

Author:        Ohno-S.
Title:         A song in praise of peptide palindromes.
Source:        Leukemia.  1993 Aug.  7 Suppl 2.  P S157-9.
Journal Title: LEUKEMIA.
Abstract:      Peptide palindromes are invariably found in all proteins,  
and
               long palindromes exceeding 10 residues in length are not  
rare.
               They are particularly abundant in DNA-binding proteins
               such as H1 histone. When a complementary strand of the  
coding
               sequence is translatable being free of a chain terminator,  
a
               complementary protein encode by it becomes equally abundant  
in
               peptide palindromes. The simultaneous musical  
transformation of
               both strands of mouse H1 histone variety-1 DNA enable us
               to appreciate the symmetrical beauty of successive  
palindromes
               appearing in both H1 histone and its complementary protein.

Hope this helps,
David
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