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ArticleNature protocols2008

Semiautomated and rapid quantification of nucleic acid footprinting and structure mapping experiments.

Alain Laederach, Rhiju Das, Quentin Vicens, Samuel M Pearlman, Michael Brenowitz, Daniel Herschlag, Russ B Altman

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Article in Nature protocols, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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47 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Alain LaederachDepartment of Developmental Genetics and Bioinformatics, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York 12208, USA. alain@wadsworth.org
Rhiju Das
Quentin Vicens
Samuel M Pearlman
Michael Brenowitz
Daniel Herschlag
Russ B Altman
Stanford University · USAlbert Einstein College of Medicine · USUniversity of Colorado Boulder · USUniversity of Washington · USWadsworth Center · US

Funding

Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures(RMI)U54GM072970 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ALTMAN, RUSS BIAGIO · 2004 to 2013
$33.5M
Time-resolved small angle X-ray scatteringP01GM066275 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI HERSCHLAG, DANIEL · 2003 to 2017
$17.8M
Center for Synchrotron BiosciencesP41EB001979 · NIBIB · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI CHANCE, MARK R · 2003 to 2008
$5.6M
Multi-Scale Dynamic Modeling of RNA Folding and AssemblyR00GM079953 · NIGMS · WADSWORTH CENTER · PI LAEDERACH, ALAIN T · 2008 to 2010
$969k
Multi-Scale Dynamic Modeling of RNA Folding and AssemblyK99GM079953 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LAEDERACH, ALAIN T · 2007 to 2007
$86k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIBIB NIH HHS P41-EB0001979NIGMS NIH HHS K99 GM079953NIGMS NIH HHS K99/R00 GM079953NIGMS NIH HHS P01-GM66275NIGMS NIH HHS R00 GM079953NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM072970NIGMS NIH HHS U54-GM072970
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have developed protocols for rapidly quantifying the band intensities from nucleic acid chemical mapping gels at single-nucleotide resolution. These protocols are implemented in the software SAFA (semi-automated footprinting analysis) that can be downloaded without charge from http://safa.stanford.edu. The protocols implemented in SAFA have five steps: (i) lane identification, (ii) gel rectification, (iii) band assignment, (iv) model fitting and (v) band-intensity normalization. SAFA enables the rapid quantitation of gel images containing thousands of discrete bands, thereby eliminating a bottleneck to the analysis of chemical mapping experiments. An experienced user of the software can quantify a gel image in approximately 20 min. Although SAFA was developed to analyze hydroxyl radical (*OH) footprints, it effectively quantifies the gel images obtained with other types of chemical mapping probes. We also present a series of tutorial movies that illustrate the best practices and different steps in the SAFA analysis as a supplement to this protocol.

Indexed as

Nucleic Acid ConformationSoftwareDNA FootprintingImage Processing, Computer-Assisted

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PMID18772866
PMCPMC2652576
OpenAlexW1990320656

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