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The BioEditor allows you to create Bio Sequence Table (.bst) files for SoftStep, ArtWonk and MusicWonk, from standard DNA and Protein data sequences that are freely available on the Internet. Two excellent free sources of genetic sequences are the Swiss Protein Data Bank and the NIH GenBank.
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The job of the BioEditor is actually quite simple. It separates the biological sequence data from the source text file, and it converts the data into a numerical table format that can be used by MIDI bio-sequence enabled software such as our music creation programs, ArtWonk and MusicWonk. Although there are a number of controls in the BioEditor, most of them are for delimiting secondary structure features such as turns, alpha helixes, and beta sheets - which can be used to trigger musical changes or events. For a simple, direct translation of the protein or DNA data, you need only to read in the file and set markers for the beginning and end of the data.
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