A simple model to explain three-base periodicity in coding DNA

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 27, 2006, Pages 6413-6422

  Sánchez, Joaquín ^a,b   López Villaseñor, Imelda ^a,b  

^a Facultad de Medicina   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Artificial induction of 2 3 and 4 base periodicities in DNA; Codon usage frequency; Context dependent codon bias; DNA periodicity and triplet clustering; Frequency distribution of distances; Three base periodicity

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DNA; MODELS, GENETIC; OPEN READING FRAMES;

EID: 33751265770     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.10.056     Document Type: Article

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