Sonification of DNA Chromatogram Data of Lionepha Species
Lili Adams’s Honors College thesis was on the subject of sonification, and for this she produced music through sonification, which translates aspects of data into sounds, allowing humans to process the data in ways other than visual or mathematical.
Her first composition is Waterfall I. It displays the primary structure of the 254-long amino acid sequence of the CAD gene of Lionepha tuulukwa specimen 3701:
Waterfall II uses the framework of Waterfall I but integrates more musically aesthetic components:
Beetles in Harmony is a piece that highlights the similarities and differences in the sequences of the CAD gene between two Lionepha specimens (Lionepha erasa specimen 3686 and Lionepha casta specimen 3703), by playing the sequences simultaneously:
Peaks is a composition that communicates the topoisomerase I gene of Lionepha casta through the height of peaks in the chromatogram data generated using the TP932R sequencing primer: