Ejemplo n.º 1
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    def codons(self, genetic_code=SGC, codon_usage=_equal_codons):
        """Predicts most likely set of codon frequencies.

        Optionally uses genetic_code (to figure out which codons belong
        with each amino acid), and codon_usage (to get most likely codons for 
        each amino acid). Defaults are the standard genetic code and unbiased 
        codon frequencies.
        """
        result = {}
        normalized = Freqs(self)
        normalized.normalize()
        for aa, aa_freq in normalized.items():
            curr_codons = genetic_code[aa]
            if not curr_codons:
                continue    #code might be missing some amino acids?
            curr_codon_freqs = Numbers([codon_usage[c] for c in curr_codons])
            curr_codon_freqs.normalize()
            for codon, c_freq in zip(curr_codons, curr_codon_freqs):
                result[codon] = c_freq * aa_freq
        return CodonUsage(result, self.info, genetic_code)