A quantitative investigation of the chemical space surrounding amino acid alphabet formation

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 349-361

  Lu, Yi ^a   Freeland, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational chemistry; Evolution; Origin of life

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ORIGIN OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETIC CODE; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOGENESIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 37349046008     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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