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SUBMITTER: Johnson AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2865858 | biostudies-other | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20100303 10
<h4>Unlabelled</h4>The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) code specified nearly 25 years ago provides a nomenclature for incompletely specified nucleic acids. However, no system currently exists that allows for the informatics representation of the relative abundance at polymorphic nucleic acids (e.g. single nucleotide polymorphisms) in a single specified character, or a string of characters. Here, I propose such an information code as a natural extension to the IUPAC nome ...[more]