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ArticleCell systems2018

Scikit-ribo Enables Accurate Estimation and Robust Modeling of Translation Dynamics at Codon Resolution.

Han Fang, Yi-Fei Huang, Aditya Radhakrishnan, Adam Siepel, Gholson J Lyon, Michael C Schatz

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Article in Cell systems, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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Han FangSimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA; Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
Yi-Fei HuangSimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
Aditya RadhakrishnanDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Adam SiepelSimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
Gholson J LyonStanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
Michael C SchatzSimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA; Departments of Computer Science and Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21211, USA. Electronic address: mschatz@cs.jhu.edu.

Funding

Single-Cell Biology Shared ResourceP30CA045508 · NCI · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI John Edward Moses · 1987 to 2026
$118.9M
Computational Methods for Genome Assembly, Transcript Assembly, and Variant DiscoveryR01HG006677 · NHGRI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SALZBERG, STEVEN L. · 2011 to 2025
$10.7M
Computational methods for human genomic data integration: demography, selection,R01GM102192 · NIGMS · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI SIEPEL, ADAM CHARLES · 2013 to 2017
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA045508NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG006677NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM102192
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ribosome profiling (Ribo-seq) is a powerful technique for measuring protein translation; however, sampling errors and biological biases are prevalent and poorly understood. Addressing these issues, we present Scikit-ribo (https://github.com/schatzlab/scikit-ribo), an open-source analysis package for accurate genome-wide A-site prediction and translation efficiency (TE) estimation from Ribo-seq and RNA sequencing data. Scikit-ribo accurately identifies A-site locations and reproduces codon elongation rates using several digestion protocols (r = 0.99). Next, we show that the commonly used reads per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads-derived TE estimation is prone to biases, especially for low-abundance genes. Scikit-ribo introduces a codon-level generalized linear model with ridge penalty that correctly estimates TE, while accommodating variable codon elongation rates and mRNA secondary structure. This corrects the TE errors for over 2,000 genes in S. cerevisiae, which we validate using mass spectrometry of protein abundances (r = 0.81), and allows us to determine the Kozak-like sequence directly from Ribo-seq. We conclude with an analysis of coverage requirements needed for robust codon-level analysis and quantify the artifacts that can occur from cycloheximide treatment.

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AlgorithmsAnimalsBase SequenceCodonComputational BiologyHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMachine LearningProteinsRibosomesRNA, MessengerSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSequence AnalysisSequence Analysis, RNASoftwareTranscriptomeCodonProteinsRNA, Messengerbioinformaticsmachine learningRibo-seqstatistical methodtranslation

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