Graphical Codon Usage Analyzer [link]
Why?
I had to convince my PhD supervisor that gene synthesis might help to solve expression problems. The wild type sulfide-quinone reductase gene from Aquifex aeolicus could not be expressed heterologously in amounts sufficent for biochemical and biophysical characterisation.
How?
In late 2001 I started working on the graphical codon usage analyzer . Since then its popularity has developed quite nice:
- ranked two or three on google searches for ‘codon usage‘
- access statistics
In Fall 2009 I created a fan page on facebook:
GCUA - Graphical Codon Usage Analyser on Facebook