open reading frame (ORF)
One of three possible reading frames in which an mRNA is potentially translated into protein. In analysis of a DNA sequence, an ORF is characterized by the sequence of nucleotides that when transcribed into mRNA results in a series of triplet codons that is not interrupted by a translation termination codon. (see also unassigned reading frame (URF))
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