Accounting for background nucleotide composition when measuring codon usage bias: Brilliant idea, difficult in practice

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1345-1347

  Fuglsang, Anders ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Norwegian Medicines Agency   (Norway)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Genetic code; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CODON USAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 33745601642     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl009     Document Type: Article

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