Re: Musical Coronavirus Sequencing
It sounds oddly pretty for a virus .
My problem though, is that given the method they've used of representing different amino acids in the protein chain forming the individual protein spikes as random notes whilst they model the rest of the structure in 3D, you'd probably get something that sounded pretty much the same no matter what complex protein you were mimicking, from a DNA strand, (the most complex of all protein molicules), to the flagella of a harmless gut bacterium, heck maybe even simple enzymes like lipases and fructases that digest food.
Heck, had they done this with another sort of molecule, they could've given an entirely different artistic interpretation, EG maybe if a DNA strand had sounded like that it could've showed the beauty of life, whilst you could imagine a bacteria gently floating along like a fish in a stream.
So, a clever thing to do and a vaguely relaxing harp sound to listen to? yes, but whether it actually shows us anything useful or was an efficient use of the pretty major time and technology that went into creating it, much less the major resources which must've gone into minutely mapping the structure of the Covid-19 virus in the first place, I am not sure.
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