1 Available resources

EpiTxDb.Sc.sacCer3 contains post-transcriptional RNA modifications from RMBase v2.0 (Xuan et al. 2017) and tRNAdb (Jühling et al. 2009) and can be accessed through the functions EpiTxDb.Sc.sacCer3.tRNAdb() and EpiTxDb.Sc.sacCer3.RMBase()

library(EpiTxDb.Sc.sacCer3)
etdb <- EpiTxDb.Sc.sacCer3.tRNAdb()
## loading from cache
etdb
## EpiTxDb object:
## # Db type: EpiTxDb
## # Supporting package: EpiTxDb
## # Data source: tRNAdb
## # Organism: Saccharomyces cerevisiae
## # Genome: sacCer3
## # Coordinates: per Transcript
## # Nb of modifications: 2990
## # Db created by: EpiTxDb package from Bioconductor
## # Creation time: 2020-02-26 10:43:09 +0100 (Wed, 26 Feb 2020)
## # EpiTxDb version at creation time: 0.99.0
## # RSQLite version at creation time: 2.2.0
## # DBSCHEMAVERSION: 1.0

Modification information can be accessed through the typical function for an EpiTxDb object, for example modifications():

modifications(etdb)
## GRanges object with 2990 ranges and 3 metadata columns:
##               seqnames    ranges strand |    mod_id    mod_type
##                  <Rle> <IRanges>  <Rle> | <integer> <character>
##      [1] tA(AGC)D_tRNA         9      + |         1         m1G
##      [2] tA(AGC)F_tRNA         9      + |         2         m1G
##      [3] tA(AGC)G_tRNA         9      + |         3         m1G
##      [4] tA(AGC)H_tRNA         9      + |         4         m1G
##      [5] tA(AGC)J_tRNA         9      + |         5         m1G
##      ...           ...       ...    ... .       ...         ...
##   [2986] tY(GUA)Q_tRNA        29      + |      3860         m2G
##   [2987] tY(GUA)Q_tRNA        30      + |      3861           Y
##   [2988] tY(GUA)Q_tRNA        40      + |      3862         i6A
##   [2989] tY(GUA)Q_tRNA        66      + |      3863         m5U
##   [2990] tY(GUA)Q_tRNA        67      + |      3864           Y
##                      mod_name
##                   <character>
##      [1]  m1G_9_tA(AGC)D_tRNA
##      [2]  m1G_9_tA(AGC)F_tRNA
##      [3]  m1G_9_tA(AGC)G_tRNA
##      [4]  m1G_9_tA(AGC)H_tRNA
##      [5]  m1G_9_tA(AGC)J_tRNA
##      ...                  ...
##   [2986] m2G_29_tY(GUA)Q_tRNA
##   [2987]   Y_30_tY(GUA)Q_tRNA
##   [2988] i6A_40_tY(GUA)Q_tRNA
##   [2989] m5U_66_tY(GUA)Q_tRNA
##   [2990]   Y_67_tY(GUA)Q_tRNA
##   -------
##   seqinfo: 258 sequences from sacCer3 genome; no seqlengths

For a more detailed overview and explanation of the functionality of the EpiTxDb class, have a look at the EpiTxDb package.

2 Sessioninfo

sessionInfo()
## R Under development (unstable) (2025-10-20 r88955)
## Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
## Running under: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
## 
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## LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.12.0  LAPACK version 3.12.0
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## [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
## 
## time zone: America/New_York
## tzcode source: system (glibc)
## 
## attached base packages:
## [1] stats4    stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
## [8] base     
## 
## other attached packages:
##  [1] EpiTxDb.Sc.sacCer3_0.99.5 EpiTxDb_1.23.0           
##  [3] Modstrings_1.27.0         Biostrings_2.79.2        
##  [5] Seqinfo_1.1.0             XVector_0.51.0           
##  [7] AnnotationDbi_1.73.0      IRanges_2.45.0           
##  [9] S4Vectors_0.49.0          Biobase_2.71.0           
## [11] AnnotationHub_4.1.0       BiocFileCache_3.1.0      
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## 
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##  [3] httr2_1.2.2                 tRNAdbImport_1.29.0        
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References

Jühling, Frank, Mario Mörl, Roland K. Hartmann, Mathias Sprinzl, Peter F. Stadler, and Joern Pütz. 2009. “TRNAdb 2009: Compilation of tRNA Sequences and tRNA Genes.” Nucleic Acids Research 37: D159–D162. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkn772.

Xuan, Jia-Jia, Wen-Ju Sun, Peng-Hui Lin, Ke-Ren Zhou, Shun Liu, Ling-Ling Zheng, Liang-Hu Qu, and Jian-Hua Yang. 2017. “RMBase v2.0: deciphering the map of RNA modifications from epitranscriptome sequencing data.” Nucleic Acids Research 46 (D1): D327–D334. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx934.