SCUMBLE: A method for systematic and accurate detection of codon usage bias by maximum likelihood estimation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3819-3827

  Kloster, Morten ^a   Tang, Chao ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROKARYOTE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; CODON; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 46749146144     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn288     Document Type: Article

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