The Audible amino acids
The Audible amino acids
Most of the chemistry conducted by living organisms is performed by proteins, which are long chains of amino acids strung together. (See my zine Protein Structure elsewhere on this site.) There are 20 standard amino acids in proteins, making this set rather like Nature’s alphabet, so it was natural to take the audible NMR spectra of all 20 of them.
The color of each H atom corresponds to its peak in the spectrum, its key on the keyboard, and its note on the musical scale.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
The Amino Acids
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