Computational identification of rare codons of Escherichia coli based on codon pairs preference

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wu, Xianming ^a,b   Wu, Songfeng ^b   Li, Dong ^b   Zhang, Jiyang ^b   Hou, Lin ^b   Ma, Jie ^b   Liu, Wanlin ^b   Ren, Daming ^a   Zhu, Yunping ^b   He, Fuchu ^b  

^a SHENYANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF RADIATION MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODING SEQUENCES; COMPUTATIONAL IDENTIFICATION; CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION; EXPRESSION LEVELS; GENE ENGINEERING; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; RESTRICTION ENZYMES; UNDERLYING CAUSE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORINE;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY;

CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 77649168784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-61     Document Type: Article

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