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. 1996 Jan 1;24(1):216–218. doi: 10.1093/nar/24.1.216

TransTerm: a database of translational signals.

M E Dalphin 1, C M Brown 1, P A Stockwell 1, W P Tate 1
PMCID: PMC145585  PMID: 8594584

Abstract

The TransTerm database of sequence contexts of stop and start codons has been expanded to include approximately 50% more species than last year's release. It now contains 148 organisms and >39 500 coding sequences; it is now available on the World Wide Web. The database includes: (i) initiation and termination sequence contexts organized by species; (ii) summary parameters about the individual sequences (sequence length, GC%, GC3, Nc, CAI) in addition to tables of base frequencies for each species' stop and start codon sequence context; (iii) species codon usage tables; and (iv) summary tables of stop signal frequency.

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