Converting Protein + Gene Expression into Music
Gil Alterovitz, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School is developing a computer program that translates protein and gene expression into music. In his acoustic translation, harmony represents good health, and discord indicates disease.
At any given time in each of our cells, thousands of genes are churning out their molecular products while thousands more lie senescent. The profile of which genes are on versus off is constantly changing–with specific diseases such as cancer, for example.
Searching for a more simplified way to represent the complex library of information inherent in gene expression, Alterovitz decided to represent those changes with music. He hopes that doctors will one day be able to use his music to detect health-related changes in gene expression early via a musical slip into discord, potentially improving a patient’s outcome. From Technology Review
For more, go here.
Or see an earlier similar effort, in which two doctors convert actual heart rate data to musical notes. http://www.sacredbalance.com/web/flashplayer.html?id=heartsongs You can read about the scientific concepts behind the heartsongs demonstration on the Heartsongs page on
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Greetings To all!
The article of biotechnology into Music is awesome. How do you make to accept the transcribed gene into music? And what type of music would come as a result? Will it change based on the rate of transcription.
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Rohinibala