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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2025

Leveraging basecaller's move table to generate a lightweight k-mer model for nanopore sequencing analysis.

Hiruna Samarakoon, Yuk Kei Wan, Sri Parameswaran, Jonathan Göke, Hasindu Gamaarachchi, Ira W Deveson

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Hiruna SamarakoonSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5812-1046
Yuk Kei WanGenome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore 138672, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0003-1774-261X
Sri ParameswaranSchool of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2008, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0435-9080
Jonathan GökeGenome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore 138672, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-0825-4991
Hasindu GamaarachchiSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9034-9905
Ira W DevesonGenomics and Inherited Disease Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3861-0472

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Singapore International Graduate Award from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research
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Abstract

motivationNanopore sequencing by Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) enables direct analysis of DNA and RNA by capturing raw electrical signals. Different nanopore chemistries have varied k-mer lengths, current levels, and standard deviations, which are stored in "k-mer models." In cases where official models are lacking or unsuitable for specific sequencing conditions, tailored k-mer models are crucial to ensure precise signal-to-sequence alignment, analysis and interpretation. The process of transforming raw signal data into nucleotide sequences, known as basecalling, is a fundamental step in nanopore sequencing.

resultsIn this study, we leverage the move table produced by ONT's basecalling software to create a lightweight de novo k-mer model for RNA004 chemistry. We demonstrate the validity of our custom k-mer model by using it to guide signal-to-sequence alignment analysis, achieving high alignment rates (97.48%) compared to larger default models. Additionally, our 5-mer model exhibits similar performance as the default 9-mer models another analysis, such as detection of m6A RNA modifications. We provide our method, termed Poregen, as a generalizable approach for creation of custom, de novo k-mer models for nanopore signal data analysis. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Poregen is an open source package under an MIT license: https://github.com/hiruna72/poregen.

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NanoporesNanopore SequencingSequence Analysis, DNASequence Analysis, RNASoftwareAlgorithmsSequence Alignment

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PMID40085000
PMCPMC11964489

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