DicodonUse: The Programme for Dicodon Bias Visualization in Prokaryotes

Pačes, Jan; Pačes, V.

doi:10.14712/fb2002048060246

Fol. Biol. 2002, 48, 246-248

https://doi.org/10.14712/fb2002048060246

DicodonUse: The Programme for Dicodon Bias Visualization in Prokaryotes

Jan Pačes^1,2, V. Pačes^1,2

¹Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
²Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Received April 2002
Accepted June 2002

The DicodonUse programme is aimed at a fast and simple assessment of genes present in prokaryotic nucleotide sequences. It identifies open reading frames that are not genes, and it distinguishes the genes that inherently belong to the genome in question from the genes that were inserted into the genome in the course of evolution. The programme is based on frequencies of dicodons used by the organism.