10 Papers about auditory display to start with

This list of paper is not yet populated, but a good starting point is the special issue of the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP) journal Volume 2,  Issue 4  (October 2005). The bibtex records of these 14 papers selected as milestones for ICAD are also available from the bibliography.

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overview article for sonifications in chemistry

For the more specific focus on sonification and chemical data,
I recommend the following overview article to start with:

Garcia-Ruiz, M.A. Gutierrez-Pulido, J.R. An overview of uditory display to assist comprehension of molecular
information Interacting with Computers 2006 18 853–868 http://doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2005.12.001