ANT: Software for Generating and Evaluating Degenerate Codons for Natural and Expanded Genetic Codes
Journal article, 2015

The Ambiguous Nucleotide Tool (ANT) is a desktop application that generates and evaluates degenerate codons. Degenerate codons are used to represent DNA positions that have multiple possible nucleotide alternatives. This is useful for protein engineering and directed evolution, where primers specified with degenerate codons are used as a basis for generating libraries of protein sequences. ANT is intuitive and can be used in a graphical user interface or by interacting with the code through a defined application programming interface. ANT comes with full support for nonstandard, user-defined, or expanded genetic codes (translation tables), which is important because synthetic biology is being applied to an ever widening range of natural and engineered organisms. The Python source code for ANT is freely distributed so that it may be used without restriction, modified, and incorporated in other software or custom data pipelines.

ambiguous nucleotide

mutagenesis

degenerate codon

software

synthetic biology

protein engineering

Author

Martin Engqvist

Chalmers, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Jens B Nielsen

Chalmers, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology

ACS Synthetic Biology

2161-5063 (eISSN)

Vol. 4 8 935-938

Areas of Advance

Life Science Engineering (2010-2018)

Subject Categories

Organic Chemistry

DOI

10.1021/acssynbio.5b00018

PubMed

25901796

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10/7/2017