Bio-Tools-CodonOptTable A codon quality check tool, it produces a Codon Optimization table to see the quality of each codon. The simplest way of depiction is to plot the codon usage frequency that can be found in common codon usage tables. A more elaborate way to depict the codon quality is to convert the codon usage frequency into relative adaptiveness values. In contrast to the codon usage frequency the relative adaptiveness takes into account the number of codons which code for the respective amino acid. We produces each codon frequency, Relative Synonymous Codons Uses and Relative Adaptiveness of a Codon that can help to calculate the Codon Adaptation Index (CAI) of a gene. We generate a Graph between RSCU & RAC for better analysis. Reference: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=3547335 USES or Examples You can use this module in the following ways use Bio::Tools::CodonOptTable; # first method my $seqobj = Bio::Tools::CodonOptTable->new ( -seq => 'ATGGGGTGGGCACCATGCTGCTGTCGTGAATTTGGGCACGATGGTGTACGTGCTCGTAGCTAGGGTGGGTGGTTTG', -id => 'GeneFragment-12', -accession_number => 'MYSEQ1', -alphabet => 'dna', -is_circular => 1 ); #IF you have sequence in file you can use this method my $seqobj = Bio::Tools::CodonsUses->new(-file => "contig.fasta", -format => 'Fasta'); #If you have NCBI accession number and what file from NCBI use this my $seqobj = Bio::Tools::CodonsUses->new(-ncbi_id => "J00522"); my $myCodons = $seqobj->rscu_rac_table(); if($myCodons) { for my $each_aa (@$myCodons) { print "Codon : ",$each_aa->[1]->{'codon'},"\t"; print "Frequency : ",$each_aa->[1]->{'frequency'},"\t"; print "AminoAcid : ",$each_aa->[1]->{'aa_name'},"\t"; print "RSCU Value : ",$each_aa->[1]->{'rscu'},"\t"; #Relative Synonymous Codons Uses print "RAC Value : ",$each_aa->[1]->{'rac'},"\t"; #Relative Adaptiveness of a Codon print "\n"; } } # to generate a Graph between RSCU & RAC $seqobj->generate_graph($myCodons,"myoutput.gif"); INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Bio::Tools::CodonOptTable You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Bio-Tools-CodonOptTable AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/Bio-Tools-CodonOptTable CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Bio-Tools-CodonOptTable Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/Bio-Tools-CodonOptTable COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2010 Rakesh Kumar Shardiwal This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.