CAT 1.3 – Composition Analysis Toolkit

CAT 1.3

:: DESCRIPTION

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.

::DEVELOPER

The National Genomics Data Center (NGDC)

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • WIndows/ Linux / MacOsX

:: DOWNLOAD

 CAT

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Zhang, Z., Li, J., Cui, P., Ding, F., Li, A., Townsend, J.P., and Yu, J. (2011)
Codon Deviation Coefficient: a novel measure for estimating codon usage bias and its statistical significance
BMC Bioinformatics. 2012 Mar 22;13:43.