Darwin, Debussy an´Dante - a four-part bioinformatics symphony

In this paper we discuss a bioinformatics software system which is based on simulating nucleotide sequences at an elemental chemical level using passive electrical circuits comprised of resistors, inductors and capacitors. We focus on the behavior of these circuits for arbitrary user-specified input signals such as speech, music and wave mappings of retinal scans and fingerprints. The circuits´ responses are then used to generate distinct visual representations which can be used in a variety of applications including DNA sequence alignments and comparisons, novel biometric identification schemes and computer/network security.