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. 2018 May 21;6:e4825. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4825

Table 2. Quantification of translational errors used to measure the relative efficiency of the natural genetic code in terms of mistranslation (taken from Freeland & Hurst (1998)).

Bases First Second Third
Relative frequency 0.5 0.1 1
Transition weighting 2 5 1
Combined weighting for
transitions ψS 1 0.5 1
transversions ψV 0.5 0.1 1