A canonical sequence is a sequence of DNA, RNA, or amino acids that reflects the most common choice of base or amino acid at each position. Many databases use or only give the canonical sequence. The UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot policy for example describes all the protein products encoded by one gene and uses the following criteria for the entry of a can...
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Synonym for consensus sequence ... Of a series of related DNA, RNA or protein sequences, the sequence that reflects the most common choice of base or amino acid at each position. Areas of particularly good agreement often represent conserved functional domains. The generation of consensus sequences has been subjected to intensive mathematical analy...
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