Table 1 Summary of the six sonification algorithms and their properties
Algorithm | DNA motif size | Step range (notes) | Number of audio frames (instruments) | Silence on STOP codon Restart on START codon | Sonify occurrence of STOP/START |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reading frame codons | 3Â bp | 20 | 3 | optional | optional |
Protein sequence | 3Â bp | 20 | 1 | no | optional |
Tri-nucleotides | 3Â bp | 64 | 1 | no | optional |
Di-nucleotide pairs | 2Â bp | 16 | 2 | no | no |
Di-nucleotides | 2Â bp | 16 | 1 | no | no |
Mono-nucleotides | 1Â bp | 4 | 1 | no | no |