RiboPlotR: a visualization tool for periodic Ribo-seq reads

Autor: Hsin-Yen Larry Wu, Polly Yingshan Hsu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Plant Methods, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1746-4811
DOI: 10.1186/s13007-021-00824-4
Popis: Abstract Background Ribo-seq has revolutionized the study of genome-wide mRNA translation. High-quality Ribo-seq data display strong 3-nucleotide (nt) periodicity, which corresponds to translating ribosomes deciphering three nts at a time. While 3-nt periodicity has been widely used to study novel translation events such as upstream ORFs in 5′ untranslated regions and small ORFs in presumed non-coding RNAs, tools that allow the visualization of these events remain underdeveloped. Results RiboPlotR is a visualization package written in R that presents both RNA-seq coverage and Ribo-seq reads in genomic coordinates for all annotated transcript isoforms of a gene. Specifically, for individual isoform models, RiboPlotR plots Ribo-seq data in the context of gene structures, including 5′ and 3′ untranslated regions and introns, and it presents the reads for all three reading frames in three different colors. The inclusion of gene structures and color-coding the reading frames facilitate observing new translation events and identifying potential regulatory mechanisms. Conclusions RiboPlotR is freely available ( https://github.com/hsinyenwu/RiboPlotR and https://sourceforge.net/projects/riboplotr/ ) and allows the visualization of translated features identified in Ribo-seq data.
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