title: CodonExplorer: an online tool for analyzing codon usage and sequence composition, scaling from genes to genomes.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
authors.forename: Micah
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hamady
authors.forename: Stephanie A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Jesse
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zaneveld
authors.forename: Noboru
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sueoka
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Knight
mesh_terms: D001482:Base Composition; D001483:Base Sequence; D003062:Codon / Q000378:metabolism*; D019295:Computational Biology; D005796:Genes; D016678:Genome; D009862:Online Systems; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D003062:Codon