The genetic code is nearly optimal for allowing additional information within protein-coding sequences

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Table 1.

Amino acid abundance (average amino acid frequency over 134 organisms, sorted in decreasing order by codon abundance)

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Table 1.

Codon abundance is the amino acid frequency divided by number of codons for that amino acid.

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  1. Genome Res. 17: 405-412

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