Measure of synonymous codon usage diversity among genes in bacteria

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Suzuki, Haruo ^a   Saito, Rintaro ^a   Tomita, Masaru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID USAGES; BACTERIAL GENOMES; CODON USAGE; COMPOSITIONAL FEATURES; DINUCLEOTIDES; DIVERSITY LEVEL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA;

GENES;

AMINO ACID; CYTOSINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 67649083891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-167     Document Type: Article

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