@article{Bollenbach01042007, author = {Bollenbach, Tobias and Vetsigian, Kalin and Kishony, Roy}, title = {Evolution and multilevel optimization of the genetic code}, volume = {17}, number = {4}, pages = {401-404}, year = {2007}, doi = {10.1101/gr.6144007}, abstract ={The discovery of the genetic code was one of the most important advances of modern biology. But there is more to a DNA code than protein sequence; DNA carries signals for splicing, localization, folding, and regulation that are often embedded within the protein-coding sequence. In this issue, Itzkovitz and Alon show that the specific 64-to-20 mapping found in the genetic code may have been optimized for permitting protein-coding regions to carry this extra information and suggest that this property may have evolved as a side benefit of selection to minimize the negative effects of frameshift errors.}, URL = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/17/4/401.abstract}, eprint = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/17/4/401.full.pdf+html}, journal = {Genome Research} }