We analyzed the nucleotide composition of genes with a special emphasis on stability of DNA sequences. Besides, in a variety of different organisms unequal use of synonymous codons, or codon usage bias, occurs which also show variation among genes in the same genome. Seemingly, codon usage bias is affected by both selective constraints and mutation bias which allows and enables us to examine and detect changes in these two evolutionary forces between genomes or along one genome. Therefore, we determined the codon adaptation index (CAI), effective number of codons (ENC) and codon usage analysis with calculation of the relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU), and subsequently predicted the translation efficiency and accuracy through GC-rich codon usages. Furthermore, we estimated the relative stability of the DNA sequence following calculation of the average free energy (Delta G) and Dimer base-stacking energy level.

Computes the probability of a set of species abundances of a single or multiple samples of individuals with one or more guilds under a mainland-island model. One must specify the mainland (metacommunity) model and the island (local) community model. It assumes that species fluctuate independently. The package also contains functions to simulate under this model. See Haegeman, B. & R.S. Etienne (2017). A general sampling formula for community structure data. Methods in Ecology & Evolution 8: 1506-1519 <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12807>.

Provides the density, distribution, quantile and generation functions of some obscure probability 
    distributions, including the doubly non-central t, F, Beta, and Eta distributions; 
    the lambda-prime and K-prime; the upsilon distribution; the (weighted) sum of 
    non-central chi-squares to a power; the (weighted) sum of log non-central chi-squares;
    the product of non-central chi-squares to powers; the product of doubly non-central
    F variables; the product of independent normals.

Maximum likelihood tools to fit and compare models of species
    abundance distributions and of species rank-abundance distributions.