Genetics

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July 2021

GISAID | Official hCoV-19 Reference Sequence

2021-07-23T09:43:06+00:00July 23rd, 2021|

Source: https://www.gisaid.org/references/hcov-19-reference-sequence/ hCoV-19/Wuhan/WIV04/2019 (WIV04) is the official reference sequence employed by GISAID (EPI_ISL_402124). WIV04 was chosen because of its high-quality genome sequence and because it represented the consensus of a handful of [...]

June 2021

mRNA Programming Basics | DNA and RNA codon tables

2021-07-27T11:16:28+00:00June 17th, 2021|

A codon table can be used to translate a genetic code into a sequence of amino acids.[1][2] The standard genetic code is traditionally represented as an RNA codon table, because when proteins are made in a cell by ribosomes, it is messenger RNA that directs protein [...]

February 2021

January 2021