DyNAVacS is a tool for designing DNA vaccines that includes steps for chosing a suitable expression vector, ensuring optimal expression by codon optimization, engineering CpG motifs for enhancing immune responses, and providing additional sequence signals for efficient translation. It also allows includes restriction enzyme mapping and design of primers spanning user specified sequences.
GenDecoder is a prediction server for animal mitochondrial genetic codes. It provides information about codon-usage, amino acid composition, GC content and a final genetic code prediction for a mitochondrial genome sequence.
GLUE, PEDEL, and DRIVeR are tools for estimating completeness and diversity in randomized protein-encoding libraries; useful for guiding library design and for analyzing results. GLUE Including Translation (GLUE-IT) finds the expected amino acid completeness of libraries. PEDEL-AA calculates amino acid statistics for libraries generated by epPCR.
JCAT (Java Codon Adaptation Tool) is a tool that can adjust the codon usage of an input sequence to the selected organism. Useful for improving the expression of foreign genes in hosts with different codon usage.
OPTIMIZER is an application that optimizes the codon usage of a DNA sequence. This server can be used to predict and optimize the level expression of a gene in heterologous gene expression systems.
PAL2NAL converts a multiple sequence alignment of proteins and the corresponding DNA (or mRNA) sequences into a codon alignment. Synonymous (Ks) and non-synonymous (Ka) substitution rates can be calculated.
RevTrans takes a set of DNA sequences, virtually translates them, aligns the peptide sequences, and uses this as a scaffold for constructing the corresponding DNA multiple alignment.
RF_DYMHC (Random Forest-Based System for Detecting Yeast Meiotic Recombination Hotspots and Coldspots) predicts recombination hot/cold spots in the yeast genome.
Selectome is a database of positive selection based on a rigorous branch-site specific likelihood test. Positive selection is detected using CODEML on all branches of animal gene trees. The web interface of Selectome enables queries according both to the results of positive selection tests, and to gene related criteria. Test results including positively selected sites can be visualized on the tree, and on the protein sequence alignment.