CONCUR: quick and robust calculation of codon usage from ribosome profiling data.
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ABSTRACT: Summary
CONCUR is a standalone tool for codon usage analysis in ribosome profiling experiments. CONCUR uses the aligned reads in BAM format to estimate codon counts at the ribosome E-, P- and A-sites and at flanking positions.Availability and implementation
CONCUR is written in Perl and is freely available at https://github.com/susbo/concur.Supplementary information
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
SUBMITTER: Frye M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8097682 | biostudies-literature |
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