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ArticleNature communications2026

A dual context-aware basecaller for nanopore direct RNA sequencing.

Shaohui Xie, Lulu Ding, Yang Yu, Ling Liu, Yiwen Sun, Jianqiang Li, Jue Ruan, Zexuan Zhu

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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8 authors.

Shaohui Xie *College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-5611-8066
Lulu Ding *National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data System Computing, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
Yang YuState Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies, Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China.
Ling LiuGuangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University, Guangzhou, China.
Yiwen SunKey Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0506-7899
Jianqiang LiNational Engineering Laboratory for Big Data System Computing, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
Jue RuanState Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies, Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China. ruanjue@caas.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3713-3192
Zexuan ZhuNational Engineering Laboratory for Big Data System Computing, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. zhuzx@szu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8479-6904

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62471310
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanopore direct RNA sequencing (DRS) offers distinct advantages for transcriptome analysis over the traditional high-throughput RNA sequencing methods by preserving native RNA modifications, eliminating polymerase chain reaction bias, and simplifying the workflow. However, its high basecalling error rate remains a significant hurdle. Here we introduce Coral, a dual context-aware nanopore DRS basecaller that uses a Transformer-based encoder-decoder architecture to capture contextual dependencies at both the signal and sequence levels, substantially improving accuracy. Coral achieves up to a 6.17% improvement in accuracy on human RNA samples compared to Oxford Nanopore Technologies' Dorado basecaller. This improved accuracy enables the detection of 26% more annotated transcript isoforms. Coral also enhances the downstream haplotype phasing, reducing switch errors by up to 78.8% and Hamming errors by 76%, while phasing 36% more single nucleotide polymorphisms.

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High-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingNanoporesNanopore SequencingSequence Analysis, RNAGene Expression ProfilingHaplotypesHumansPolymorphism, Single NucleotideRNARNA

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PMID41565691
PMCPMC12920642

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