TranslatorX: Multiple alignment of nucleotide sequences guided by amino acid translations

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages

  Abascal, Federico ^a   Zardoya, Rafael ^a   Telford, Maximilian J ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

GENETIC CODE; INTERNET; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77954272855     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq291     Document Type: Article

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