Identification of protein coding regions by database similarity search.

doi:10.1038/ng0393-266

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Identification of protein coding regions by database similarity search.

Nature genetics - 1 Mar 1993

Gish W, States D J

Abstract excerpt

Sequence similarity between a translated nucleotide sequence and a known biological protein can provide strong evidence for the presence of a homologous coding region, even between distantly related genes. The computer program BLASTX performed conceptual translation of a nucleotide query sequence...

Topics

Algorithms
Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Databases, Factual
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Probability
Proteins
Rats
Ribosomal Proteins
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Software

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