Psychoacoustic explorers: turning proteins into sounds with Edward Martin

In this episode, Rose Doyle talks to BioPOD alumnus and PhD student Eddie Martin. They discuss different ways of visualising protein structures and how sound can help us get more information from protein sequences. In his research, he turns a protein sequence into a short melody. From this melody, it is then possible to “hear out” some distinct features of the protein. Eddie also explains the intricacies of sound design and how to best convey the variations between different amino acids.

Artwork by Chris Donohoe and editing by Ruby White.

Link to the paper: https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-021-04362-7