Hamady Micah, Wilson Stephanie A, Zaneveld Jesse, Sueoka Noboru, Knight Rob
Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
Bioinformatics. 2009 May 15;25(10):1331-2. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp141. Epub 2009 Mar 11.
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.
一般而言,DNA组成,特别是密码子使用情况,对于理解基因功能和进化至关重要。CodonExplorer可在http://bmf.colorado.edu/codonexplorer/在线获取,它是一个在线工具和交互式数据库,包含数百万个基因,能够快速探究影响基因和基因组组成进化的因素,并利用GC含量和密码子使用频率来识别那些在组成上表明具有高表达水平或水平转移的基因。