KaKs_Calculator: Calculating Ka and Ks Through Model Selection and Model Averaging
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- 1 December 2006
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
- Vol. 4 (4) , 259-263
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1672-0229(07)60007-2
Abstract
KaKs_Calculator is a software package that calculates nonsynonymous (Ka) and synonymous (Ks) substitution rates through model selection and model averaging. Since existing methods for this estimation adopt their specific mutation (substitution) models that consider different evolutionary features, leading to diverse estimates, KaKs_Calculator implements a set of candidate models in a maximum likelihood framework and adopts the Akaike information criterion to measure fitness between models and data, aiming to include as many features as needed for accurately capturing evolutionary information in protein-coding sequences. In addition, several existing methods for calculating Ka and Ks are also incorporated into this software. KaKs_Calculator, including source codes, compiled executables, and documentation, is freely available for academic use at http://evolution.genomics.org.cn/software.htm.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2001AA231061)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (30270748)
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