An ab initio quantum chemical investigation of the error-coding model of nucleotide alphabet composition

Molecular Physics

Volumn 101, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2755-2762

  MacDónaill, Dónall A ^a   Brocklebank, Denise ^a,b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

ERROR-CODING MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE ALPHABET COMPOSITION; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0142037913     PISSN: 00268976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0026897031000135861     Document Type: Article

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