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ArticleeLife2026

Raw signal segmentation for estimating RNA modification from Nanopore direct RNA sequencing data.

Guangzhao Cheng, Aki Vehtari, Lu Cheng

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Article in eLife, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Guangzhao ChengDepartment of Computer Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6160-3637
Aki VehtariDepartment of Computer Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2164-9469
Lu ChengDepartment of Computer Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6391-2360

Funding

Research Council of Finland 335858Research Council of Finland 358086
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Estimating RNA modifications from Nanopore direct RNA sequencing data is a critical task for the RNA research community. However, current computational methods often fail to deliver satisfactory results due to inaccurate segmentation of the raw signal. We have developed a new method, SegPore, which leverages a molecular jiggling translocation hypothesis to improve raw signal segmentation. SegPore is a pure white-box model with enhanced interpretability, significantly reducing structured noise in the raw signal. We demonstrate that SegPore outperforms state-of-the-art methods, such as Nanopolish and Tombo, in raw signal segmentation across three large benchmark datasets. Moreover, the improved signal segmentation achieved by SegPore enables SegPore+m6Anet to deliver state-of-the-art performance in site-level m6A identification. Additionally, SegPore surpasses baseline methods like CHEUI in single-molecule level m6A identification.

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Computational BiologyNanoporesNanopore SequencingRNASequence Analysis, RNAAnimalsHumansRNA MethylationRNAalignmentcomputational biologyhumanmouseNanoporeraw signalRNA modificationsegmentationsystems biology

Identifiers

PMID41770630
PMCPMC12952792

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