Wesley R. Elsberry
Posts: 4991 Joined: May 2002
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The canonical genetic code
It is tough to represent tabular information in a proportional font. So I will present a list representing the canonical genetic code. There are three items separated by commas in each line. The first is a representation of a codon, a nucleotide triplet. Each base is represented by a letter: "a" for adenine, "g" for guanine, "c" for cytosine, and "u" for uracil. The second item is either an amino acid or a "stop", where each amino acid is represented by a three-letter abbreviation. The third item is a single-letter code for an amino acid.
uuu,phe,f ucu,ser,s uau,tyr,y ugu,cys,c uuc,phe,f ucc,ser,s uac,tyr,y ugc,cys,c uua,leu,l uca,ser,s uaa,stop,x uga,stop,x uug,leu,l ucg,ser,s uag,stop,x ugg,trp,w cuu,leu,l ccu,pro,p cau,his,h cgu,arg,r cuc,leu,l ccc,pro,p cac,his,h cgc,arg,r cua,leu,l cca,pro,p caa,gln,q cga,arg,r cug,leu,l ccg,pro,p cag,gln,q cgg,arg,r auu,ile,i acu,thr,t aau,asn,n agu,ser,s auc,ile,i acc,thr,t aac,asn,n agc,ser,s aua,ile,i aca,thr,t aaa,lys,k aga,arg,r aug,met,m acg,thr,t aag,lys,k agg,arg,r guu,val,v gcu,ala,a gau,asp,d ggu,gly,g guc,val,v gcc,ala,a gac,asp,d ggc,gly,g gua,val,v gca,ala,a gaa,glu,e gga,gly,g gug,val,v gcg,ala,a gag,glu,e ggg,gly,g
Here's a page with a table showing the canonical code and the full expansion of the abbreviations.
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