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Preferred term

Open Reading Frames  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Coding Region, Protein
  • ORF
  • ORFs
  • Protein Coding Region
  • Protein Coding Regions
  • Region, Protein Coding

Scope note

  • A sequence of successive nucleotide triplets that are read as CODONS specifying AMINO ACIDS and begin with an INITIATOR CODON and end with a stop codon (CODON, TERMINATOR).

History note

  • 1991; for UNIDENTIFIED READING FRAME and UNASSIGNED READING FRAMES use READING FRAMES 1991-2004

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016366

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