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ArticleNature communications2025

Training data diversity enhances the basecalling of novel RNA modification-induced nanopore sequencing readouts.

Ziyuan Wang, Ziyang Liu, Yinshan Fang, Hao Helen Zhang, Xiaoxiao Sun, Ning Hao, Jianwen Que, Hongxu Ding

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. 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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8 authors.

Ziyuan Wang *Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2476-2929
Ziyang Liu *Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-2098-434X
Yinshan Fang *Columbia Center for Human Development, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9249-4498
Hao Helen ZhangStatistics and Data Science GIDP, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Xiaoxiao SunStatistics and Data Science GIDP, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Ning HaoStatistics and Data Science GIDP, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. nhao@math.arizona.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3104-5370
Jianwen QueColumbia Center for Human Development, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA. jq2240@cumc.columbia.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6540-6701
Hongxu DingDepartment of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. hongxuding@arizona.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-9744

Funding

Improve Lung Regeneration Through Targeting Tuft Cells Following Viral InfectionR01HL159675 · NHLBI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI QUE, JIANWEN · 2021 to 2024
$2.4M
Cell Fate Regulation in Esophageal Progenitor CellsR01DK132251 · NIDDK · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI LU, CHAO, QUE, JIANWEN · 2022 to 2025
$2.3M
VEGF/KDR Signaling in Airway Epithelial Regeneration and DiseaseR01HL152293 · NHLBI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI QUE, JIANWEN · 2021 to 2024
$2.0M
Protein Translation for Oxidative Stress Response in Heart FailureR01HL179676 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI QIN M CHEN · 2025 to 2026
$1.1M
Novel Mechanisms of Oxidative Stress Response in Heart FailureR56HL166330 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI CHEN, QIN M · 2023 to 2023
$625k
Tuft Cells Modulate Macrophage Response Following Lung Viral InfectionR21AI163753 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI QUE, JIANWEN · 2022 to 2023
$446k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL152293NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL159675NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL179676NHLBI NIH HHS R56 HL166330NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI163753NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK132251U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) HL166330
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurately basecalling sequence backbones in the presence of nucleotide modifications remains a substantial challenge in nanopore sequencing bioinformatics. It has been extensively demonstrated that state-of-the-art basecallers are less compatible with modification-induced sequencing signals. A precise basecalling, on the other hand, serves as the prerequisite for virtually all the downstream analyses. Here, we report that basecallers exposed to diverse training modifications gain the generalizability to analyze novel modifications. With synthesized oligos as the model system, we precisely basecall various out-of-sample RNA modifications. From the representation learning perspective, we attribute this generalizability to basecaller representation space expanded by diverse training modifications. Taken together, we conclude increasing the training data diversity as a paradigm for building modification-tolerant nanopore sequencing basecallers.

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Computational BiologyNanopore SequencingRNASequence Analysis, RNAHumansNanoporesRNA

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PMID39814719
PMCPMC11735843

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