Combinatorial codons: A computer program to approximate amino acid probabilities with biased nucleotide usage

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 680-688

  Wolf, Ethan ^a   Kim, Peter S ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Combinatorial libraries; Computational techniques

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CODON; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033055901     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.3.680     Document Type: Article

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