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Dissecting polysomes

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An improvement on the traditional method of polysome profiling, ribosome density mapping (RDM) can provide information about the distribution of ribosomes on individual mRNAs.

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Kaganman, I. Dissecting polysomes. Nat Methods 2, 488 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0705-488

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