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Can the anti-sense chain of DNA encode for a protein? Such a problem has been explored by means of the codon-analyzing graph developed recently.
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Zhang, C.T., Chou, K.C. An analysis of base frequencies in the anti-sense strands corresponding to the 180 human protein coding sequences. Amino Acids 10, 253–262 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00807327
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