Periodicity of DNA in exons

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Eskesen, Stephen T ^a   Eskesen, Frank N ^b   Kinghorn, Brian ^a   Ruvinsky, Anatoly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon usage; DNA periodicity; Evolutionary algorithm; Simulated sequences

Indexed keywords

DNA; HELMINTH DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PERIODICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; DNA, HELMINTH; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PERIODICITY;

EID: 26444482968     PISSN: 14712199     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-5-12     Document Type: Article

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