Why are complementary DNA strands symmetric?

Bioinformatics

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1021-1033

  Baisnée, Pierre François ^a   Hampson, Steve ^a   Baldi, Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DNA VIRUSES; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0036677661     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.8.1021     Document Type: Article

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