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A parity code interpretation of nucleotide alphabet composition
1Department of Chemistry, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland. dmcdonll@tcd.ie
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 3, 2002
Abstract:
The purine-pyrimidine and hydrogen donor-acceptor patterns governing nucleotide recognition are shown to correspond formally to a digital error-detection (parity) code, suggesting that factors other than physiochemical issues alone shaped the natural nucleotide alphabet.