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Open reading frame  Updated 2025-05-29  +Created 1970-01-01

Area between a start codon and an stop codon.

This term is useful because:

there are some crazy constructs, notably in viruses, in which there's more than one gene in a single orf
post-transcriptional modifications can throw out parts of the sequence

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