Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Genome-wide identification and differential analysis of translational initiation

  • Peng Zhang,
  • Dandan He,
  • Yi Xu,
  • Jiakai Hou,
  • Bih-Fang Pan,
  • Yunfei Wang,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Christel M. Davis,
  • Erik A. Ehli,
  • Lin Tan,
  • Feng Zhou,
  • Jian Hu,
  • Yonghao Yu,
  • Xi Chen,
  • Tuan M. Nguyen,
  • Jeffrey M. Rosen,
  • David H. Hawke,
  • Zhe Ji,
  • Yiwen Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01981-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Translation initiation sequencing (TI-seq) has revealed unexpected diversity in protein isoforms. Here, Zhang et al. present Ribo-TISH, a computational toolkit that can detect and compare TIs across conditions and improve open reading frame prediction from different types of ribosome profiling data.