Towards molecular musical instruments

Mitchell, Thomas J.; Jones, Alex J.; O’Connor, Michael B.; Wonnacott, Mark; Glowacki, David R.; Hyde, Joseph

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“…18 A variety of information sources have been sonied, such as visual art, 19 the architecture of spider webs, 20 infrared spectra of chemicals, 21 amino acid sequences, 22 air pollution, 23 re, 24 and many more. [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] The SELFIES representation provided a viable input for molecular sonication, both for the encoding of molecules into a melody and the construction of new molecules via performance on a musical instrument such as the piano. We developed a workow for transferring molecules into music, and vice versa, which we call Sonic Architecture for Molecule Production and Live-Input Encoding Soware, or SAMPLES (Fig.…”

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Molecular sonification for molecule to music information transfer

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The emerging potential of interactive virtual reality in drug discovery

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Participatory Design of Sonification Development for Learning about Molecular Structures in Virtual Reality

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Background: Chemistry and biology students often have difficulty understanding molecular structures. Sonification (the rendition of data into non-speech sounds that convey information) can be used to support molecular understanding by complementing scientific visualization. A proper sonification design is important for its effective educational use. This paper describes a participatory design (PD) approach to designing and developing the sonification of a molecular structure model to be used in an educational setting. Methods: Biology, music, and computer science students and specialists designed a sonification of a model of an insulin molecule, following Spinuzzi’s PD methodology and involving evolutionary prototyping. The sonification was developed using open-source software tools used in digital music composition. Results and Conclusions: We tested our sonification played on a virtual reality headset with 15 computer science students. Questionnaire and observational results showed that multidisciplinary PD was useful and effective for developing an educational scientific sonification. PD allowed for speeding up and improving our sonification design and development. Making a usable (effective, efficient, and pleasant to use) sonification of molecular information requires the multidisciplinary participation of people with music, computer science, and molecular biology backgrounds.

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Towards molecular musical instruments

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Molecular sonification for molecule to music information transfer

Molecular sonification for molecule to music information transfer

The emerging potential of interactive virtual reality in drug discovery

Participatory Design of Sonification Development for Learning about Molecular Structures in Virtual Reality

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