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(COdon Usage Similarity INdex)

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COUSIN is a bioinformatic tool which aims to calculate the Codon Usage Preferences (CUPrefs) of sequences using a novel index named COUSIN. In addition, numerous functions are proposed to enhance your CUPrefs analysis experience !

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Jérôme Bourret, Samuel Alizon, Ignacio G Bravo, COUSIN (COdon Usage Similarity INdex): A Normalized Measure of Codon Usage Preferences, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 12, December 2019, Pages 3523–3528, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz262