Why are complementary DNA strands symmetric?
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Why are complementary DNA strands symmetric?
MOTIVATION Over sufficiently long windows, complementary strands of DNA tend to have the same base composition. A few reports have indicated that this first-order parity rule extends at higher orders to oligonucleotide composition, at least in some organisms or taxa. However, the scientific literature falls short of providing a comprehensive study of reverse-complement symmetry at multiple orde...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bioinformatics
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1367-4803,1460-2059
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.8.1021