This, in fact, is what horse hemoglobin sounds like: audio. And here's the sheet music. News in Science explains:
Scientists have turned proteins into music in a move they say will help vision-impaired researchers and put a bit of fun into genome biology.
Rie Takahashi and Professor Jeffrey Miller of the University of California, Los Angeles, used amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, to devise a 20 note range spanning two octaves.
They came up with their music by assigning each amino acid a note.
They then assigned tempo according to how often particular sets of three amino acids, or codons, appear in the sequence.
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