CAT Composition Analysis Toolkit

Introduction

CAT (Composition Analysis Toolkit) is a software package that includes a novel measure of codon usage bias, Codon Deviation Coefficient (CDC). Unlike previous measures, CDC effectively accounts for background nucleotide composition in estimating codon usage bias and utilizes a bootstrap assessment of the statistical significance of codon usage bias.

Publications

  1. Codon Deviation Coefficient: A Novel Measure For Estimating Codon Usage Bias And Its Statistical Significance.
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    Zhang Z, Li J, Cui P, Ding F, Li A, Townsend JP, Yu J, 2012 Mar 22 - Bmc Bioinformatics
    Cited by 58 (Google Schoolar as of August 2, 2021)

Credits

  1. Zhang Zhang zhangzhang@big.ac.cn
    Investigator

    BIG Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Summary
AccessionBT000002
Tool TypeApplication
CategoryNatural selection
PlatformsLinux/Unix, MAC OS X, Windows
TechnologiesC++
User InterfaceDesktop GUI, Terminal Command Line
Input DataFASTA
Download Count0
Country/RegionChina
Submitted ByZhang Zhang