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CodonExplorer: an online tool for analyzing codon usage and sequence composition, scaling from genes to genomes

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: DNA composition in general, and codon usage in particular, is crucial for understanding gene function and evolution. CodonExplorer, available online at http://bmf.colorado.edu/codonexplorer/, is an online tool and interactive database that contains millions of genes, allowing rapid exploration of the factors governing gene and genome compositional evolution and exploiting GC content and codon usage frequency to identify genes with composition suggesting high levels of expression or horizontal transfer.

Source: Bioinformatics

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp141

Authors: Micah Hamady, Stephanie A. Wilson, Jesse Zaneveld, Noboru Sueoka, Rob Knight

Institutions: University of Colorado Boulder, University of California, Irvine

Language: English

Topic: RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green