Revisiting the operational RNA code for amino acids: Ensemble attributes and their implications

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 141-153

  Shaul, Shaul ^a   Berel, Dror ^b   Benjamini, Yoav ^a   Graur, Dan ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Cryptography; Operational RNA code

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; CODON; EVALUATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 75649108250     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1745910     Document Type: Article

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