How to describe genes: Enlightenment from the quaternary number system

BioSystems

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-27

  Ma, Bin Guang ^a,b  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Biological sequence analysis; Codon usage; Gene identification

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SOFTWARE; YEAST;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; YEAST;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34447097819     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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