Nucleic Acids Research, 1980, Vol. 8, No. 19 4545-4562
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CHEMISTRY |
Some rules in the ordering of nucleotides in the DNA
Department of Structural Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel
Received July 4, 1980.
Natural DNA sequences contain distinct nearest neighbor patterns. Eukaryotic as well as prokaryotic sequences show a consistent hierarchy in the frequencies of appearance of most doublets.
*Present address: Department of Chemistry and Melvin Calvin Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA