Codon usage tables available

[J. Michael Cherry]

In article <1991Feb17.203115.7949 at bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> 
gilbertd at cricket.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) writes:
> Mike Cherry (cherry at frodo.mgh.harvard.edu) has produced a set of
> codon usage tables for 50 different species from Genbank release
> 63, which he as generously made publicly available.  These tables
> are useable directly with the GCG software programs which ask for
> codon tables.   

You can retrieve these codon usage tables for all the major species 
reported in GenBank directly from my machine via anonymous ftp: 
frodo.mgh.harvard.edu (IP number 132.183.190.10). Look in the [.codon] 
directory, the read.me file lists which files go with which species.

I'll be updating these codon usage tables in a month or two, probably 
after GenBank release 67.

I use the features table to get the coding regions then check that each 
coding region doesn't have more than one stop codon. From these extracted 
exons I manually eliminate all redundant entries and any sequence that is 
not wild type. This means I remove mutant genes, pseudogenes, viral and 
transposon sequences and those that are questionable. Then I remove all 
but one copy per type of things like immunoglobulins.

Mike Cherry
cherry at frodo.mgh.harvard.edu
Department of Molecular Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
617-726-5955
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