ANT: Software for Generating and Evaluating Degenerate Codons for Natural and Expanded Genetic Codes

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 935-938

  Engqvist, Martin K M ^a   Nielsen, Jens ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ambiguous nucleotide; degenerate codon; mutagenesis; protein engineering; software; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; CODON;

ALGORITHM; AMBIGUOUS NUCLEOTIDE TOOL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC CODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CODON; DNA; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84939790639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00018     Document Type: Article

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