Protein Music Samples
All of the music samples listed below were produced from the primary and secondary structure of protein sequences, using music software from Algorithmic Arts.

Click on protein names below for information on the protein.
Sequence information from Swiss-Prot.
Click here for a list of protein image sources.

Protein Information Audio Files

Coronavirus SARS 3C-like Protease

 3:50 MP3

Sonic Hedgehog: Signalling Protein

4:20 MP3

Cu-Zn Superoxide Dismutase

7:53 MP3

FOX-P2 (The "Human Language Gene")

 6:54 MP3

Beta Globin

8:00
MP3

UDP-Glucuronosyl Transferase

 4:46.
MP3

Estrogen Receptor

 4:50
MP3

SRY: Male Determining Factor

4:15.
MP3

Drosophila Protein

 10:46
MP3

Heat Shock Protein

 11:19
MP3
Rhodopsin
 6:39
MIDI
MP3
 Blue cone receptor
 7:33
RealAudio
MP3
Aequorin
 5:47
MIDI
MP3
 Prion precursor
 5:43
RealAudio
MP3
Immunoglobulin G
 6:28
MIDI
MP3
Alpha Keratin
 6:57
MIDI
MP-3
Spidroin Revisited
 7:34
MIDI
MP3
Pieces from the Life Music CD
Spidroin
 3:34
MIDI
RealAudio
MP3
Calmodulin
 2:55
MIDI
RealAudio
MP3
Gamma Crystallin
 2:54
MIDI
RealAudio
MP3
Lysozyme C
PDB Molecule of the Month
 3:43
MIDI
RealAudio
MP3
Alcohol Dehydrogenase
PDB Molecule of the Month
 5:03

MIDI
RealAudio
 MP3

Triose Phosphate Isomerase
 6:36. RealAudio
MP3
Pieces by John Dunn from the Life Music CD.
Beta Globin
 5:42
MP3
Lysozyme C
PDB Molecule of the Month
 7:13
MP3
Collagen
PBD: Molecule of the Month
 13:56
MP3
In each piece above, pitch is determined by amino acid identity. The structural features of the protein are emphasized by choosing instrumentation according to protein folding pattern, with different instruments representing regions of alpha-helix, beta-strands and turns. In some pieces, different instruments may identify functional domains of the protein.

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