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Swine Flu Hemagglutinin by Nature but mostly by Stephan Zielinski

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Stephan Zielinski has written a program to interpret the amino acid sequence of swine flu as ambient music. I… I can’t explain it more than that.

Amino acids with side chains that are neither aromatic not aliphatic control the piano and organ: the nine non-hydrophobics the piano, and the four hydrophobics the organ. The three amino acids with aliphatic side chains control the low synthesizer, while the four with aromatics control the percussion. Strictly speaking, this is a version of swine flu hemagglutinin, FJ966952.

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