Usually means: Sequence context for translating nucleotides.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word reading frame:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. reading frame: Merriam-Webster
  2. reading frame: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reading frame: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reading frame: Wiktionary
  5. reading frame: Dictionary.com
  6. Reading frame: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. reading frame: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reading frame: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. reading frame: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Frame, reading, Reading frame: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Molecular Biology Glossary (No longer online)
  7. reading frame: Medical dictionary
  8. Frame, reading, Reading frame: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reading frame: Biology dictionary
  2. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reading frame)

▸ noun:  (genetics) Any of three possible sequences of codons in which an RNA sequence could be translated.

Similar:
subread, readthrough, back-translation, uORFs, retrogene, frameshift mutation, multiread, retrotranscriptome, exitron, retroposon, more...

Opposite:
non-coding strand, reverse strand, antisense strand

Phrases:
open reading frame, open reading frame (orf), Upstream open reading frame, more...

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Similar:
subread, readthrough, back-translation, uORFs, retrogene, frameshift mutation, multiread, retrotranscriptome, exitron, retroposon, more...

Opposite:
non-coding strand, reverse strand, antisense strand

Phrases:
open reading frame, open reading frame (orf), Upstream open reading frame, more...



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