A software tool for automated codon usage analysis (original) (raw)
Title
ACUA: A software tool for automated codon usage analysis
Authors
Vetrivel Umashankar1*, Vijayakumar Arunkumar1 and Sudarsanam Dorairaj2
Affiliation
1Department of Bioinformatics, Vel�s College of Science, Chennai, India; 2School of Genomics, Department of Zoology, Loyola College, Chennai, India
vumashankar@gmail.com; * Corresponding author
Article Type
Software
Date
received June 28, 2007; revised August 15, 2007; accepted September 28, 2007; published online October 06, 2007
Abstract
Currently available codon usage analysis tools lack intuitive graphical user interface and are limited to inbuilt calculations. ACUA (Automated Codon Usage Tool) has been developed to perform high throughput sequence analysis aiding statistical profiling of codon usage. The results of ACUA are presented in a spreadsheet with all perquisite codon usage data required for statistical analysis, displayed in a graphical interface. The package is also capable of on-click sequence retrieval from the results interface, and this feature is unique to ACUA.
Availability
The package is available for non-commercial purposes and can be downloaded from http://www.bioinsilico.com/acua
Keywords
codon usage; ACUA; CAI; RSCU; statistical analysis
Citation
Umashankar et al., Bioinformation 2(2): 62-63 (2007)
Edited by
V. S. Mathura
ISSN
0973-2063
Publisher
License
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.