TRANSTERM - A DATABASE OF TRANSLATIONAL SIGNALS

The TransTerm database of sequence contexts of stop and start codons h as been expanded to include similar to 50% more species than last year 's release. It now contains 148 organisms and >39 500 coding sequences ; it is now available on the World Wide Web. The database includes: (i ) initiation and termination sequence contexts organized by species; ( ii) summary parameters about the individual sequences (sequence length , GC%, GC3, Nc, CAI) in addition to tables of base frequencies for eac h species' stop and start codon sequence context; (iii) species codon usage tables; and (iv) summary tables of stop signal frequency.