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ArticleNature communications2025

Accurate cross-species 5mC detection for Oxford Nanopore sequencing in plants with DeepPlant.

He-Xu Chen, Zhen-Dong Liu, Xin Bai, Bo Wu, Rong Song, Hui-Cong Yao, Ying Chen, Wei Chi, Qian Hua, Liang Cheng and 1 more

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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 8 papers.

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He-Xu Chen *State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Guangzhou, China.
Zhen-Dong Liu *School of Computer and Information Engineering, Shanghai Polytechnic University, Shanghai, China.
Xin Bai *State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Guangzhou, China.
Bo Wu *State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Guangzhou, China.
Rong Song *State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Guangzhou, China.
Hui-Cong YaoSchool of Artificial Intelligence, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, China.
Ying ChenState Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Guangzhou, China.
Wei ChiShenzhen Eye Hospital, Shenzhen Eye Medical Center, Southern Medical University, Shenzhen, China. chiwei@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
Qian HuaSchool of Life Science, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China. huaq@bucm.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4238-4594
Liang ChengCollege of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China. liangcheng@hrbmu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6665-6710
Chuan-Le XiaoState Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Guangzhou, China. xiaochuanle@126.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4680-0682

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanopore sequencing enables comprehensive detection of 5-methylcytosine (5mC), particularly in repeat regions. However, CHH methylation detection in plants is limited by the scarcity of high-methylation positive samples, reducing generalization across species. Dorado, the only tool for plant 5mC detection on the R10.4 platform, lacks extensive species testing. Here, we develop DeepPlant, a deep learning model incorporating both Bi-LSTM and Transformer architectures, which significantly improves CHH detection accuracy and performs well for CpG and CHG motifs. We address the scarcity of methylation-positive CHH training samples through screening species with abundant high-methylation CHH sites using bisulfite-sequencing and generate datasets that cover diverse 9-mer motifs for training and testing DeepPlant. Evaluated across nine species, DeepPlant achieves high whole-genome methylation frequency correlations (0.705-0.838) with BS-seq data on CHH, improved by 23.4- 117.6% compared to Dorado. DeepPlant also demonstrates superior single-molecule accuracy and F1 score, offering strong generalization for plant epigenetics research.

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5-MethylcytosineNanopore SequencingPlantsCpG IslandsDeep LearningDNA MethylationDNA, PlantEpigenesis, GeneticGenome, Plant5-MethylcytosineDNA, Plant

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