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

Email

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.

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

Biomedical Informatics

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.