sORFs.org: repository of small ORFs identified by ribosome profiling

This section provides a summary on the acquisition and processing of the data. For more detailed information, feel free to consult the available literature. Use the navigation bar on the left to navigate trough the different steps.

5. Conservation

Cross species conservation is a general adopted technique to acquire evidence for genomic important regions. PhastCon and PhyloP are used to calculate a conservation score, using the UCSC multi-species alignments.