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Abstract

Biology

De novo Identification of Actively Translated Open Reading Frames with Ribosome Profiling Data

Published: February 18th, 2022

DOI:

10.3791/63366

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

* These authors contributed equally

Abstract

Identification of open reading frames (ORFs), especially those encoding small peptides and being actively translated under specific physiological contexts, is critical for comprehensive annotations of context-dependent translatomes. Ribosome profiling, a technique for detecting the binding locations and densities of translating ribosomes on RNA, offers an avenue to rapidly discover where translation is occurring at the genome-wide scale. However, it is not a trivial task in bioinformatics to efficiently and comprehensively identify the translating ORFs for ribosome profiling. Described here is an easy-to-use package, named RiboCode, designed to search for actively translating ORFs of any size from distorted and ambiguous signals in ribosome profiling data. Taking our previously published dataset as an example, this article provides step-by-step instructions for the entire RiboCode pipeline, from preprocessing of the raw data to interpretation of the final output result files. Furthermore, for evaluating the translation rates of the annotated ORFs, procedures for visualization and quantification of ribosome densities on each ORF are also described in detail. In summary, the present article is a useful and timely instruction for the research fields related to translation, small ORFs, and peptides.

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