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Music From DNA Patented

Posted by kdawson on from the tinkle-of-little-coins dept.

stm2 writes "Two lawyers have patented generating music from a DNA sequence. According to the patent, it covers 'music generated by decoding and transcribing genetic information within a DNA sequence into a music signal having melody and harmony.' A comment to the blog post mentions DNA-derived music being performed at a conference in 1995."

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  1. For Christ Sake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Look, I know it's standard groupthink around here to hate patents and anything patent related, but we don't need blatently false stories to rile everyone up.

    The patent is not for "music obtained from DNA" it's for a METHOD to obtain music from DNA. The idea is actually pretty damn unique if you ask me. This is not a frivolous patent.

    God damn Slashdot seems to get more and more inaccurate every year.