De novo Identification of Actively Translated Open Reading Frames with Ribosome Profiling DataYanan Zhu *1, Fajin Li *2,3, Xuerui Yang 2,3, Zhengtao Xiao 1
1School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, 2MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, 3Joint Graduate Program of Peking-Tsinghua-National Institute of Biological Science
Translating ribosomes decode three nucleotides per codon into peptides. Their movement along mRNA, captured by ribosome profiling, produces the footprints exhibiting characteristic triplet periodicity. This protocol describes how to use RiboCode to decipher this prominent feature from ribosome profiling data to identify actively translated open reading frames at the whole-transcriptome level.
