Challenges and obstacles related to solving the codon bias riddles

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 155-159

  Tuller, Tamir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biological model; Codon bias; Gene expression; Gene translation; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CODON; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RNA TRANSLATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ANIMALS; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84893326533     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20130095     Document Type: Article

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