GC content dependency of open reading frame prediction via stop codon frequencies

Gene

Volumn 511, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 441-446

  Pohl, Martin ^a   Theien, Günter ^a   Schuster, Stefan ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

GC content; Gene finding; ORF prediction; Stop codon frequency

Indexed keywords

TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; STOP CODON;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON, TERMINATOR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; OPEN READING FRAMES;

CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII;

EID: 84868195369     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.09.031     Document Type: Article

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