Codon Deviation Coefficient: A novel measure for estimating codon usage bias and its statistical significance

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Zhang ^a,b   Li, Jun ^c   Cui, Peng ^a,d   Ding, Feng ^a,d   Li, Ang ^a,b   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^e   Yu, Jun ^b  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Background nucleotide composition; Bootstrapping; Cdc; Codon deviation coefficient; Codon usage bias; Cub; GC content; Purine content; Statistical significance

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; NUCLEOTIDES;

BOOTSTRAPPING; CODON USAGE BIAS; DEVIATION COEFFICIENT; GC CONTENTS; NUCLEOTIDE COMPOSITION; PURINE CONTENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

STATISTICS;

AMINO ACID;

ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STATISTICS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE COMPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SELECTION, GENETIC; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84862827380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-43     Document Type: Article

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