Jia-Yu Chen

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How to measure codon usage bias? What is the widely-used method?

Codon adaptation index (CAI) is one of them. To examine the CAI value of a gene, a reference table of RSCU (relative synonymous codon usage) values for highly expressed genes is compiled. I am...

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Do microRNAs in a cluster share the same ancestor?

My first quesition is, what is the definition of microRNA cluster? If Some microRNAs are next to each other in the genome, then can we call it a microRNA cluster? Are the micorRNAs in a cluster...

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How to calculate dN, dS?

How to calculate dN, dS? What kind of input should I prepare? And which method is better? (A) Nei-Gojobori (1986) method, (B) Yang & Nielsen (2000) method or (C) LWL85, LPB93 & LWLm methods?

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