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How to determine the most likely reading frame of a DNA sequence?
This question is from a past exam paper for an introductory bioinformatics module. I'm a computer scientist doing biology for the first time.
"A short bacterial gene has been sequenced, giving the ...
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Does an ORF need a stop codon?
I try to read ORFs from a gene sequence but I am not sure how to interpret a sequence with a start codon but no stop codon. Imagining I have a gene sequence like the following:
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