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ArticleGenome research2024

Detecting m6A RNA modification from nanopore sequencing using a semisupervised learning framework.

Haotian Teng, Marcus Stoiber, Ziv Bar-Joseph, Carl Kingsford

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Article in Genome research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. RNA mCell biology and toxicology · 2026
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  7. Comprehensive discovery of mNature communications · 2025
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  12. Epitranscriptomic alterations induced by environmental toxins: implications for RNA modifications and disease.Genes and environment : the official journal of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Haotian TengRay and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0337-8722
Marcus StoiberOxford Nanopore Technologies, Alameda, California 94501-1170, USA.
Ziv Bar-JosephRay and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3430-6051
Carl KingsfordRay and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA; carlk@cs.cmu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0118-5516

Funding

Improved genomic sketching for MUMmer and metagenomicsR01HG012470 · NHGRI · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI KINGSFORD, CARLETON LEE, MARÇAIS, GUILLAUME · 2022 to 2025
$1.7M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG012470
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Direct nanopore-based RNA sequencing can be used to detect posttranscriptional base modifications, such as N6-methyladenosine (m6A) methylation, based on the electric current signals produced by the distinct chemical structures of modified bases. A key challenge is the scarcity of adequate training data with known methylation modifications. We present Xron, a hybrid encoder-decoder framework that delivers a direct methylation-distinguishing basecaller by training on synthetic RNA data and immunoprecipitation (IP)-based experimental data in two steps. First, we generate data with more diverse modification combinations through in silico cross-linking. Second, we use this data set to train an end-to-end neural network basecaller followed by fine-tuning on IP-based experimental data with label smoothing. The trained neural network basecaller outperforms existing methylation detection methods on both read-level and site-level prediction scores. Xron is a standalone, end-to-end m6A-distinguishing basecaller capable of detecting methylated bases directly from raw sequencing signals, enabling de novo methylome assembly.

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AdenosineNanopore SequencingHumansMachine LearningMethylationNeural Networks, ComputerRNARNA MethylationRNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalSequence Analysis, RNAAdenosineN-methyladenosineRNA

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PMID39406497
PMCPMC11610579

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