title: Recognition of protein coding regions in DNA sequences.
abstract: We give a test for protein coding regions which is based on simple and universal differences between protein-coding and noncoding DNA. The test is simple enough to use without a computer and is completely objective. The test has been thoroughly proven on 400,000 bases of sequence data: it misclassifies 5% of the regions tested and gives an answer of "No Opinion" one fifth of the time. We predict some new coding and noncoding regions in published sequences.
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics*; D005796:Genes; D008957:Models, Genetic; D011336:Probability; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D004247:DNA