DNA-Radio: Listen to entire human genome

[Tindalos]

Tune into DNA-Radio

After creating pictures from the human DNA code and getting an incredible amount of positive response, the step to convert the data to audio came into our mind quite fast. After some thinking and lots of tests, we are converting the whole human genome to audio and streaming them now to the Internet, 24/7. The idea is quite simple, every base is read and broadcasted instead converting it to a color. With DNA-Radio we don't visualize the chromosome, we sonify it and have now completed a full audio-visual DNA representation of human chromosomes.

It's like radio, everybody listening hears the same code at the same time, the audio never gets repeated and when we have aired all chromosomes, this project is over. Well, after doing some calculation we figured out that this will take quite a while. When we read three characters a second, it will take about 23.5 years or so until all code has been distributed over the internet.

Currently broadcasting: Chromosome 1.

Listen at link: http://www.dna-rainbow.org/dna-radio.html

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It's got a good dance beat in places. I can see someone sampling this and incorporating it into a song.

[Buzz Clik]

1. I envision geneticists with a lot of free time.

[Tindalos]

7. There's a lot of waiting around during sequencing

It's (possibly) a better use of time than playing second life.

[Ian David]

2. OOh! Remember my idea to broadcast The Human Genome into Deep Space?

Transmitting The Human Genome into Deep Space
Posted by IanDB1 in Science
Tue Feb 03rd 2009, 05:10 PM
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IanDB1/6127

[Tindalos]

6. Good idea

Maybe one day, aliens on a distant planet could recreate us from the sequence. It's one way to explore the stars.

[tridim]

3. Egads that's annoying.

At least make each letter pronunciation the same length so it maintains a consistent meter.

[Occulus]

4. I wonder why they didn't use notes

G, A, and C are already on the scale. Just make T something else, and notate the thing.

[Tindalos]

5. They should get James Earl Jones to read it

Not sure he'd sign on for 23.5 years though.