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Nomenclature conventions for nucleic acids - the tools in the SNooP resource use IUPAC - IUB single letter codes

Nucleotide(s) IUB/GCG1 Staden2 Stanford3
A A A A
C C C C
G G G G
T T/U T T/U
(AC) M 5 j
(AG) R R R
(AT) W 7 L
(CG) S 8 M
(CT) Y Y Y
(GT) K 6 K
(AGC) V - -
(ACT) H - -
(AGT) H - -
(CGT) D - -
(AGTC) X/N - -


1Internation Union of Bichemistry convention is used for most resources including, GENBANK, GCG, EMBL and NBRF
2The Staden convention is used by the Cambridge University database.
3The Stanford convention is used by the Stanford University database.