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Protein Music (DNA music or Genetic music) is a musical technique where music is composed by converting protein sequences, such as genes, to musical notes. It is a theorical method made by Joel Sternheimer, who is a physicist,composer and mathematichian.(There wasn't any existing experiment for this theory.) ==Theory== In ''Gödel, Escher, Bach'', Douglas Hofstadter draws similarities and analogies between genes and music. It even proposes that meaning is constructed in protein and in music.〔Hofstadter (1980) p525: "Music is not a mere linear sequence of notes. Our minds perceive pieces of music on a level far higher than that. We chunk notes into phrases, phrases into melodies, melodies into movements, and movements into full pieces. similarly proteins only make sense when they act as chunked units. Although a primary structure carries all the information for the tertiary structure to be created, it still 'feels' like less, for its potential is only realized when the tertiary structure is actually physically created."〕 The ideas that supports the possibility of creating harmonic musics using this method are: * The repetition process governs both the musical composition and the DNA sequence construction. * Pink noise (the correlation structure "1/f spectra") have been found in both musical signals and DNA sequences.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Scholarpedia )〕 * Models with duplication and mutation operations, such as the "expansion-modification model" are able to generate sequences with 1/f spectra. * When DNA sequences are converted to music, it sounds musical.〔"(DNA Music )", ''The Robert S. Boas Center for Genomics and Human Genetics''. 〕 * Human Genome Project has revealed similar genetic themes not only between species, but also between proteins. Musical renditions of DNA and proteins is not only a music composition method, but also a technique for studying genetic sequences. Music is a way of representing sequential relationships in a type of informational string to which the human ear is keenly attuned. The analytic and educational potential of using music to represent genetic patterns has been recognized from secondary school to university level.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Protein music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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