Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Genome-wide assessment of differential translations with ribosome profiling data

  • Zhengtao Xiao,
  • Qin Zou,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Xuerui Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11194
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The global measurement of ribosome occupancy on mRNAs is commonly used as a proxy in estimating rates of protein synthesis. Here the authors describe Xtail, a computational approach that facilitates the extraction of accurate quantitative insight from ribosome profiling data (Ribo-Seq).