Automated isolation of translational efficiency bias that resists the confounding effect of GC(AT)-content

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 238-250

  Raiford, Douglas W ^a   Krane, Dan E ^b   Doom, Travis E ^c   Raymer, Michael L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon usage bias; GC content; Strand bias; Translational efficiency

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL STUDIES; CODON USAGE; CODON USAGE BIAS; GENETIC CODE; GENOMIC DATA; GENOMIC SEQUENCE; GENOMIC SEQUENCING; GENOMIC-SEQUENCE DATA; INFORMATION DOMAINS; TRANSLATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; WEALTH OF INFORMATION;

AMINO ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77952242897     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2008.65     Document Type: Article

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