On the organizational dynamics of the genetic code

Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 21-29

  Zhang, Zhang ^a   Yu, Jun ^a,b  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

Author keywords

Codon; Compositional dynamics; GC content; Genetic code; Organizational dynamics; Purine content

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMINO ACID; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; THYMINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROKARYOTE;

AMINO ACIDS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; NUCLEOTIDES;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79957916493     PISSN: 16720229     EISSN: 22103244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-0229(11)60004-1     Document Type: Article

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