GenDecoder: Genetic code prediction for metazoan mitochondria

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue WEB. SERV. ISS., 2006, Pages

  Abascal, Federico ^a,b   Zardoya, Rafael ^b   Posada, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANNELID WORM; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; METAZOON; MITOCHONDRION; MOLLUSC; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PLATYHELMINTH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPONGE (PORIFERA); TAXONOMY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CODON; COMPUTER INTERFACE; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA; PLATYHELMINTHES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; INTERNET; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33747850241     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl044     Document Type: Article

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