start codon

first codon of a messenger RNA transcript translated by a ribosome
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start codon

Summary

start codon ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (145 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • start codon's subclass of is recorded as codon[2].
  • start codon's subclass of is recorded as delimiter[3].
  • start codon's part of is recorded as open reading frame[4].
  • start codon's Commons category is recorded as Start codon[5].
  • start codon's opposite of is recorded as stop codon[6].
  • start codon's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D018387[7].
  • start codon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08yjq8[8].
  • start codon's MeSH tree code is recorded as D13.444.735.544.355.225[9].
  • start codon's MeSH tree code is recorded as G05.360.335.355.225[10].
  • start codon's MeSH tree code is recorded as G05.360.340.024.340.137.190.225[11].
  • start codon's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0242610[12].
  • start codon's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as start-codon[13].
  • start codon's Sequence Ontology ID is recorded as SO:0000318[14].
  • start codon's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 176990463[15].
  • start codon's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C176990463[16].
  • start codon's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as agricultural-and-biological-sciences/start-codon[17].
  • start codon's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as neuroscience/start-codon[18].
  • start codon's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as medicine-and-dentistry/start-codon[19].
  • start codon's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as immunology-and-microbiology/start-codon[20].
  • start codon's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/start-codon[21].

Why It Matters

start codon ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (145 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). start codon. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/start-codon
MLA “start codon.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/start-codon.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_start-codon_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{start codon}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/start-codon}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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