Classification of Arabidopsis thaliana gene sequences: Clustering of coding sequences into two groups according to codon usage improves gene prediction

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1977-1991

  Mathé, Catherine ^a   Peresetsky, Anatoly ^b   Déhais, Patrice ^a   Van Montagu, Marc ^a   Rouzé, Pierre ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b CENTRAL ECONOMICS AND MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Clustering; Codon usage; Gene expression; Genome

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PYRIMIDINE;

ALGORITHM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CODON; CODON USAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033524964     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2451     Document Type: Article

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