Abstract
Selenoproteins are proteins that have in their structure selenocystein aminoacid, which is encoded by TGA codon. The study of this kind of proteins is not very developed because most of the computational programs interpretate this codon like a stop signal.
In this study, it's tried to investigate if Perkinsus marinus, a oyster pathogen, has selenoproteins. Firstly, it's needed to look for if the organism has any selenoprotein or sintesy 's machinery protein known, and later it's tried to look for new selenoproteins.