Specific amino acid content and codon usage account for the existence of overlapping ORFS

BioSystems

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-100

  Boldogkõi, Zsolt ^a   Barta, Endre ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Antisense ORFs; Gene evolution; Genetic code; Overlapping open reading frames; Yeast genome

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CODON USAGE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOP CODON; YEAST;

EID: 0032793260     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(99)00018-0     Document Type: Article

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