California State University, Hayward Listen to music produced from higher alegebra, that is, based on an Abelian square-free string over a four letter alphabet. The midi music was composed by Tomi Laakso using an algorithm that he has written for the program Mathematica . The movie files on the right of the table are the same as the left and will play directly with QuickTime and the QuickTime plug-in. Play the pairs of enzymes and compare their differences.
Trypsin is an important digestive enzyme that breaks peptide bonds in proteins.
Rhodopsin is an important enzyme which responds to light and plays a key role in Vision. Acetycholinesterase is an important enzyme associated with neuro-transmission and involved with the neurotoxicity of nerve gases and certain insecticides. The above music was produced from a portion of the enzyme, trypsin, and includes the key amino acid residue that defines the active site. Click for Correct Answers. An excellent paper by two leaders in the area of producing music from DNA and proteins, John Dunn and Mary Anne Clark.