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A computer program (PCBI) was developed to quickly calculate codon bias index (CBI). PCBI can analyze a gene containing introns. The 22 preferred codons defined fromSaccharomyces cerevisiae were used in PCBI as the standard to measure the CBI values. However, users can modify the preferred codons to suit each organism. The data PCBI provides include DNA sequence of open reading frame without introns, amino acid sequence of gene product, a table of amino acid composition, a table of codon usage and (G+C) content, parameters for calculating CBI, and the value of CBI. PCBI runs on DOS or Windows environment, but results can be saved in ASCII text format.
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Wang, TT., Cheng, WC. & Lee, B.H. A simple program to calculate codon bias index. Mol Biotechnol 10, 103–106 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02760858
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