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© 1987 IRL Press Ltd.

An algorithm for discriminating sequences and its application to yeast transfer RNA

Hugh B. Nicholas, Jr and William H. McClain *

Department of Bacteriology, 1550 Linden Dr., University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA

*To whom reprint requests should be sent.

We describe an algorithm for finding nucleotide residues strongly correlated with the amino acid acceptor functions of transfer RNAs. The algorithm exploits the fact that each tRNA accepts only one of 20 amino acids. The algorithm is applied to 37 Saccharomyces cerevisiae transfer RNAs.

Received on January 28, 1987
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