Gene Music
There are many western attempts to create gene music. We have produced a Protein music in Indian Raga Kalyani. This is derived out of the Acidic Bovine Protein Sequence. Listen to it here. What we have done is to take the amino acid sequences (proteins are basically amino acids sequences) and map them to some physico-chemical parameters of the acids. We have tried 3 parameters. Then we made a look-up table where the amino acids were ordered based on increasing value of the physico-chemical parameters and each was assigned notes from 3 octaves. To make the music sound natural, we clubbed some amino acids which had very close parameter values. Finally we had 15 groups and they were assigned notes (Pa Dha Ni Sa) (Sa Ri Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa) (Sa Ri Ga Ma Pa) from Manthra Sthayi (lower octave), normal octave and Thara Sthayi (lower octave) respectively. We are planning to use k-means clustering to group amino acids rather than just hand-picking them, so that the un-natural jumps you hear in the gene music can be smoothed out.
