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A handbell used for summoning monks.
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The "bell" or flaring mouth of a trumpet.
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A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis or translation.
Examples of codons in a Sentence
Codon degeneracy Although there are 64 possible triplet codons, there are only 20 different amino acids coded by them.
Three of the codons are instructions to stop building, which leaves 61 to code for particular amino acids.
By default, only the start and stop codons at the beginnings and ends of open reading frames are shown in the frame display.
The Rare codon Display Rare codons in each reading frame are marked below the open reading frame plot.
In both plots, the positions of rare codons are indicated by dots above each translation frame.
Output potential start codons are written only in lowercase letters.
The output table is a file with the sum of all the observations for each of the 64 possible codons.
Mark start codons - color can be changed in the options file.
Protein folding origami tucks away many of the codons to leave only a few active sites on the protein folding origami tucks away many of the codons to leave only a few active sites on the protein surface.