Fabrizio Vassallo (vassallo at cli.di.unipi.it) wrote:
: Hallo!
: Have anyone heard of relations betw. music & DNA?
: please post me
Yes, people have tried to convert biosequences to music.
A quick search of Medline found several citations by Susumo Ohno
and others:
A song in praise of peptide palindromes.
Ohno S
Leukemia 7 Suppl 2: S157-9 (1993)
The all pervasive principle of repetitious
recurrence governs not only coding sequence
construction but also human endeavor in
musical composition.
Ohno S; Ohno M
Immunogenetics 24: 71-8 (1986)
On periodicities governing the construction of genes and proteins.
Ohno S
Anim Genet 19: 305-16 (1988)
Repetition as the essence of life on this earth:
music and genes.
Ohno S
Hamatol Bluttransfus 31: 511-8 (1987)
Modern coding sequences are in the
periodic-to-chaotic transition.
Ohno S
Hamatol Bluttransfus 32: 512-9 (1989)
Translation to human temperaments of the
tyrosine-kinase active site of the human insulin
receptor beta-chain.
Busby D
Hamatol Bluttransfus 32: 520-6 (1989)
Keith Robison
Harvard University
Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology
Department of Genetics / HHMI
robison at mito.harvard.edu
