Abstract
Selenoproteins are a type of protein which contain in their sequence the selenocystein aminoacid, known as the twenty-first aminoacid. Selenocystein is encoded by UGA codon, which is almost always interpreted as a STOP codon, which present difficulties for anotation by bioinformatics tools. Organisms which have selenoproteins have to recode the UGA codon to introduce a selenocystein. The recodification of the UGA codon is carried out by a tridimensional structure called SECIS, which is placed in the 3'UTR region of the selenoproteins genes.