vhcub: Virus-host codon usage co-adaptation analysis
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Isolation of Fidelity Variants of RNA Viruses and Characterization of Virus Mutation Frequency
Published on: June 16, 2011
Ali Mostafa Anwar1, Mohamed Soudy2, Radwa Mohamed1
1Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Cairo, 12613, Egypt.
Abstract:
Viruses show noticeable evolution to adapt and reproduce within their hosts. Theoretically, patterns and factors that affect the codon usage of viruses should reflect evolutionary changes that allow them to optimize their codon usage to their hosts. Some software tools can analyze the codon usage of organisms; however, their performance has room for improvement, as these tools do not focus on examining the codon usage co-adaptation between viruses and their hosts. This paper describes the vhcub R package, which is a crucial tool used to analyze the co-adaptation of codon usage between a virus and its host, with several implementations of indices and plots. The tool is available from: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vhcub/.
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