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ArticleGenome biology2024

RUBICON: a framework for designing efficient deep learning-based genomic basecallers.

Gagandeep Singh, Mohammed Alser, Kristof Denolf, Can Firtina, Alireza Khodamoradi, Meryem Banu Cavlak, Henk Corporaal, Onur Mutlu

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Article in Genome biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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8 authors.

Gagandeep SinghDepartment of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Mohammed AlserDepartment of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Kristof DenolfResearch and Advanced Development, AMD, Longmont, USA.
Can FirtinaDepartment of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. firtinac@ethz.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-6548-7863
Alireza KhodamoradiResearch and Advanced Development, AMD, Longmont, USA.
Meryem Banu CavlakDepartment of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Henk CorporaalDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Onur MutluDepartment of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. omutlu@ethz.ch.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanopore sequencing generates noisy electrical signals that need to be converted into a standard string of DNA nucleotide bases using a computational step called basecalling. The performance of basecalling has critical implications for all later steps in genome analysis. Therefore, there is a need to reduce the computation and memory cost of basecalling while maintaining accuracy. We present RUBICON, a framework to develop efficient hardware-optimized basecallers. We demonstrate the effectiveness of RUBICON by developing RUBICALL, the first hardware-optimized mixed-precision basecaller that performs efficient basecalling, outperforming the state-of-the-art basecallers. We believe RUBICON offers a promising path to develop future hardware-optimized basecallers.

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Deep LearningNanoporesDNAGenomicsNucleotidesSequence Analysis, DNADNANucleotidesBasecallingDeep neural networkGenomics sequencingHardware accelerationMachine learning

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PMID38365730
PMCPMC10870431

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