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ArticleComputational and structural biotechnology journal2024

BaseNet: A transformer-based toolkit for nanopore sequencing signal decoding.

Qingwen Li, Chen Sun, Daqian Wang, Jizhong Lou

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Article in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Qingwen LiKey Laboratory of Epigenetic Regulation and Intervention, Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Chen SunBeijing Polyseq Biotech Co. Ltd., Beijing 100089, China.
Daqian WangBeijing Polyseq Biotech Co. Ltd., Beijing 100089, China.
Jizhong LouKey Laboratory of Epigenetic Regulation and Intervention, Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.

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Nanopore sequencing provides a rapid, convenient and high-throughput solution for nucleic acid sequencing. Accurate basecalling in nanopore sequencing is crucial for downstream analysis. Traditional approaches such as Hidden Markov Models (HMM), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have improved basecalling accuracy but there is a continuous need for higher accuracy and reliability. In this study, we introduce BaseNet (https://github.com/liqingwen98/BaseNet), an open-source toolkit that utilizes transformer models for advanced signal decoding in nanopore sequencing. BaseNet incorporates both autoregressive and non-autoregressive transformer-based decoding mechanisms, offering state-of-the-art algorithms freely accessible for future improvement. Our research indicates that cross-attention weights effectively map the relationship between current signals and base sequences, joint loss training through adding a pair of forward and reverse decoder facilitate model converge, and large-scale pre-trained models achieve superior decoding accuracy. This study helps to advance the field of nanopore sequencing signal decoding, contributes to technological advancements, and provides novel concepts and tools for researchers and practitioners.

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BasecallMachine learning algorithmNanopore sequencingTransformer

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PMCPMC11465205

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