+Because of its size, tRNA-seq produces reads that can cover the entire length of the tRNA; tRNA-seq also captures certain tRNA modifications as ‘misincorporations’ relative to the reference tRNA sequence, and the charging status by the 3'-CCA ends depending on the library construction protocol. SLAC considers all pairwise combinations modification-modification and modification-charging. For each pair, it determines the number of reads for: (i) both sites are modified/charged, (ii) site 1 is, site 2 is not modified/charged, (iii) site 1 is not, site 2 is modified/charged and (iv) both sites are not modified/charged. The analysis produces an odds ratio (OR) that informs whether the pair of modification-modification or modification-charging tend to appear together in the same read (OR > 1, stimulatory crosstalk) or tend to be exclusive of one another (OR < 1, inhibitory crosstalk), as well as calculates the significance of this interdependence using Fisher's exact test.
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