The codon adaptation index-a measure of
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Sharp, Paul M.; Li, Wen-Hsiung
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Article
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1987
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Oxford University Press
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English
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A simple, effective measure of synonymous codon usage bias, the Codon Adaptation Index, is detailed. The index uses a reference set of highly expressed genes from a species to assess the relative merits of each codon, and a score for a gene is calculated from the frequency of use of all codons in th