IUBio

and geneticcode database ?

Peter Rice pmr at sanger.ac.uk
Fri Nov 13 11:11:01 EST 1998


gbottu at bigben.vub.ac.be (Guy Bottu) writes:
> It turns out that only genetic codes 7 and 8 are not referenced in
> taxonomy.

I still only get 6 codes linked. I used the taxonomy file
ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/taxonomy/taxonomy.dat

> 2. Alas ! taxonomy does reference genetic codes 13, 14 and 15 and these
> are not found in the gc.prt file
> Anyone an idea about where to find them ?

They were in the EGCG 8.1 local data files as trans12.txt ... trans14.txt.
The filename numbers are 1 less than the NCBI numbers but match the
NCBI SGC codes :-)

13 is Ascidian Mitochondrial

           Ascidian Mitochondrial       Standard 

                        W Trp TGA       * End TGA
                        M Met ATA       I Ile ATA
                        G Gly AGA       R Arg AGA
                        G Gly AGG       R Arg AGG

14 is Flatworm Mitochondrial

           Flatworm Mitochondrial       Standard

                        Y Tyr TAA       * End TAA
                        W Trp TGA       * End TGA
                        S Ser AGA       R Arg AGA
                        S Ser AGG       R Arg AGG

15 is Blepharisma Macronuclear
 
     Blepharisma Macronuclear     Standard

                 Q Gln TAG       * End TAG



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