Ribosome Profiling (Ribo-seq) has revolutionized the study of RNA translation by providing information on ribosome positions across all translated RNAs with...
Read More »Ribotoolkit – an integrated platform for analysis and annotation of ribosome profiling data to decode mRNA translation at codon resolution
Ribosome profiling (Ribo-seq) is a powerful technology for globally monitoring RNA translation; ranging from codon occupancy profiling, identification of actively translated open reading frames (ORFs), to the quantification of translational efficiency under...
Read More »deltaTE – Detection of Translationally Regulated Genes by Integrative Analysis of Ribo-seq and RNA-seq Data
Ribosome profiling quantifies the genome-wide ribosome occupancy of transcripts. With the integration of matched RNA sequencing data, the translation efficiency (TE) of genes can be calculated to...
Read More »svist4get – a simple visualization tool for genomic tracks from sequencing experiments
High-throughput sequencing often provides a foundation for experimental analyses in the life sciences. For many such methods, an intermediate layer of bioinformatics data analysis is the genomic signal track constructed by short read mapping...
Read More »An efficient RNAseq library prep method for determining reverse transcription termination sites
Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute describe a method for making Illumina-compatible sequencing libraries from RNA. This protocol can be used for standard RNAseq analysis for detecting differentially expressed genes. In addition, this protocol is ideally suited for adapting to ...
Read More »systemPipeR – NGS workflow and report generation environment
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized how research is carried out in many areas of biology and medicine. However, the analysis of NGS data remains a major obstacle to the efficient utilization of the technology, as it requires complex multi-step processing ...
Read More »RiboProfiling – a Bioconductor package for standard Ribo-seq pipeline processing
The ribosome profiling technique (Ribo-seq) allows the selective sequencing of translated RNA regions. Recently, the analysis of genomic sequences associated to Ribo-seq reads has been widely employed to assess their coding potential. These analyses led to the identification of differentially ...
Read More »With RiboTaper, molecular biology forensics is much closer to finding out the secret of the cellular kitchen
A new statistical method could help to clarify the function of unknown genes. A research team under Uwe Ohler of the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) has adapted and ...
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