Either I'm missing something badly here, or the other respondents to
this thread are. So here goes: your average Joe molecular biologist
is interested in G+C content mainly because it's directly related to
the thermal stability (melting point) of the DNA. That is largely (I
don't say exclusively) what makes G+C an informative and non-arbitrary
way of summarizing base composition.
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