Palliser and Parry have examined about 100 scales and found that they can use them for locating B-strands on the surface of proteins. Hydrophobicity scales were  also used to predict the preservation of the genetic code. Trinquier observed a new order of the bases that better reflect the conserved character of the genetic code. They believed new ordering of the bases was uracil-guanine-cystosine-adenine (UGCA) better reflected the conserved character of the genetic code compared to the commonly seen ordering UCAG.