Proteins and molecules are in constant motion, vibrate and vibrate without interruption. Researchers have translated these vibrations into music for a long time. Now they have interpreted the corona virus as Japanese string music.
This is how a corona virus protein “sounds”
Last year, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston managed to make the vibrations of the amino acid proteins audible and translate them into music. Using the same method, a protein of the coronavirus has now been examined.
“If you listen to the protein, you will find that the intricate design results in incredibly interesting and actually pleasant, relaxing sounds.”
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The result is a “multilayered algorithmic composition”, which MIT chemist Markus J. Buehler published on his Soundcloud account in March. Buehler explains that the vibration spectrum of the entire protein is mapped with sound and rhythm elements.
Each protein has its own melody
In recent years, Buehler and his team had discovered that each amino acid has an individual sound. However, since the vibrations of the protein building blocks lie in a frequency range that is inaudible to the human ear, the MIT researchers shifted the whole thing into the human hearing spectrum. A kind of melody can be assigned to each protein and the researchers can now even recognize proteins by their sound, as the ORF reported last summer.
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