A simple and species-independent coding measure

Gene

Volumn 300, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 97-104

  Carpena, P ^a   Bernaola Galvan P ^a   Roman Roldan R ^b   Oliver, J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bp, base; Coding measure; G+C or GC: molar fraction of guanine and cytosine in DNA; Genomes; Kb, kilobase; Mb, megabase; Species independent

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACCURACY; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME 22; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; ISOCHORE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOP CODON;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON, TERMINATOR; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; ISOCHORES; OPEN READING FRAMES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037202360     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(02)01041-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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