Music Made From Genetic Patterns

From Discovery News - Human Interest:

Microbiologists convert DNA sequences into music. Even if you've never picked up an instrument, music is in your blood. Scientists have discovered a way to convert the DNA patterns that code for proteins into rhythmic piano notes that sound pleasant to a musician's ear. The conversion method could not only make the otherwise daunting field of genomic coding more approachable to the general public and even children but could also provide scientists — including those who are vision-impaired — an entirely new way for analyzing proteins. "It's a great teaching tool because everyone is familiar with music and it's a universal language," said research assistant Rie Takahashi, a microbiologist who studied classic piano for 14 years. Takahashi developed the Gene2Music technique with microbiologist Jeffrey Miller at the University of California, Los Angeles, and published their results in the latest issue of Genome Biology 2007.

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