title: ACUA: a software tool for automated codon usage analysis.
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.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The package is available for non-commercial purposes and can be downloaded from: http://www.bioinsilico.com/acua.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioinformatics, Vel's College of Science, Chennai, India. vumashankar@gmail.com
authors.forename: Umashankar
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Vetrivel
authors.forename: Vijayakumar
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Arunkumar
authors.forename: Sudarsanam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dorairaj