Weizman ORFs Tracks
 
New ORFs based on RNA-seq and Ribo-seq by the Weizman Institute tracks   (All Genes and Gene Predictions tracks)

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ORF predictions  Weizman ORF predictions  
Calu3 7hpi  Calu3 7hpi Ribo-seq and RNA-seq  
Vero6 5hpi  Vero6 5hpi Ribo-seq and RNA-seq  
Vero6 24hpi  Vero6 24hpi Ribo-seq and RNA-seq  
Assembly: SARS-CoV-2 Jan. 2020 (NC_045512.2)

Description

The Weizman ORFs (Open Reading Frames) track shows previously unannotated ORF predictions based on Ribo-Seq and RNA-seq data. It is a collection of tracks (super track) that contains not only the predicted gene models, but also data supporting them.

Display Conventions and Configuration

The Predicted ORFs track shows the predicted exons. All other tracks show the signal as a x-y plot with bars.

Methods

Methods from Finkel et al:

To capture the full SARS-CoV-2 coding capacity, we applied a suite of ribosome profiling approaches to Vero cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 for 5 and 24 hours, and Calu3 cells infected for 7 hours. For each time point we prepared three different ribosome-profiling libraries, each one in two biological replicates. Two Ribo-seq libraries facilitate mapping of translation initiation sites, by treating cells with lactimidomycin (LTM) or harringtonine (Harr), two drugs with distinct mechanisms that prevent 80S ribosomes at translation initiation sites from elongating. The third Ribo-seq library was prepared from cells treated with the translation elongation inhibitor cycloheximide (CHX), and gives a snap-shot of actively translating ribosomes across the body of the translated ORF. In parallel, RNA-sequencing was applied to map viral transcripts.

The ORF prediction was done by using two computational tools, PRICE and ORF-RATER, that rely on different features of ribosome profiling data, and by manual inspection of the data. The predictions are based on Ribo-seq libraries from two time points (5 and 7 hpi) of two different cell lines (Vero E6 and Calu3 cells), infected with separate virus isolates.

The Ribo-Seq data of the 24 hours samples do not show the expected profile of read distribution on viral genes and therefore were not used for the procedure of ORF predictions.

For more details see the paper in the References section below.

Data Access

The raw data can be explored interactively with the Table Browser, or combined with other datasets in the Data Integrator tool.

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References

Finkel Y, Mizrahi O, Nachshon A, Weingarten-Gabbay S, Morgenstern D, Yahalom-Ronen Y, Tamir H, Achdout H, Stein D, Israeli O et al. The coding capacity of SARS-CoV-2. Nature. 2020 Sep 9;. PMID: 32906143