Codon and Codon-Pair Usage Tables (CoCoPUTs): Facilitating Genetic Variation Analyses and Recombinant Gene Design

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 431, Issue 13, 2019, Pages 2434-2441

  Alexaki, Aikaterini ^a   Kames, Jacob ^a   Holcomb, David D ^a   Athey, John ^a   Santana Quintero, Luis V ^a   Lam, Phuc Vihn Nguyen ^a   Hamasaki Katagiri, Nobuko ^a   Osipova, Ekaterina ^a   Simonyan, Vahan ^a   Bar, Haim ^b   Komar, Anton A ^c   Kimchi Sarfaty, Chava ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

codon context; codon pair bias; dinucleotide frequency; GenBank; gene optimization deoptimization

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; CODON AND CODON PAIR USAGE TABLE; CODON USAGE; DATA PROCESSING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA STABILITY; TAXONOMY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON USAGE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS;

EID: 85065099709     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.04.021     Document Type: Article

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