Xtail

Genome-wide assessment of differential translations with ribosome profiling data

VERSION

1.2.0

Authors

Zhengtao Xiao

DESCRIPTION

The xtail package is designed to identify genes exhibiting differential translation between two experimental conditions by simultaneously analyzing changes in RNA-seq and ribo-seq data. The estimation of changes in read counts are performed using the DESeq2 package.

REQUIREMENTS

• R >= 3.2
• DESeq2
• Rcpp >= 0.10.1
• parallel

INSTALLATION

Details of the installation process can be found in the INSTALL file located in the root directory of the package. Additionally, a Docker image of xtail is available; please refer to this page for more information.

CONTENTS

The R install packages are located in the "releases" tag.

DOCUMENTATION

To use Xtail, please refer to the instructions in xtail.pdf in this subdirectory inst/doc, or type: vignette("xtail") at the R-prompt.

LICENSE

Xtail is licensed under the GPL version 3 or any later version

For more information please contact zhengtao.xiao[at]xjtu.edu.cn