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ArticleNature communications2025

De novo non-canonical nanopore basecalling enables private communication using heavily-modified DNA data at single-molecule level.

Qingyuan Fan, Xuyang Zhao, Junyao Li, Ronghui Liu, Ming Liu, Qishun Feng, Yanping Long, Yang Fu, Jixian Zhai, Qing Pan 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 2 papers.

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11 authors.

Qingyuan FanSchool of Microelectronics, MOE Engineering Research Center of Integrated Circuits for Next Generation Communications, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1047-048X
Xuyang ZhaoSchool of Microelectronics, MOE Engineering Research Center of Integrated Circuits for Next Generation Communications, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-3220-8953
Junyao LiSchool of Microelectronics, MOE Engineering Research Center of Integrated Circuits for Next Generation Communications, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-4786-1008
Ronghui LiuSchool of Microelectronics, MOE Engineering Research Center of Integrated Circuits for Next Generation Communications, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Ming LiuSchool of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Qishun FengNational Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Yanping LongDepartment of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4512-0594
Yang FuSchool of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5068-7248
Jixian ZhaiDepartment of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0217-0666
Qing PanCollege of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7145-6011
Yi LiSchool of Microelectronics, MOE Engineering Research Center of Integrated Circuits for Next Generation Communications, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. liy37@sustech.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6134-3117

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32100021National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32371372National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32371526Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission JCYJ20220530113013030Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission JCYJ20220814170440001Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission JCYJ20220818100218039Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission JCYJ20230807092459028
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hidden messages in DNA molecules by employing chemical modifications has been suggested for private data storage and transmission at high information density. However, rapidly decoding these "molecular keys" with corresponding basecallers remains challenging. We present DeepSME, a nanopore sequencing and deep-learning based framework towards single-molecule encryption, demonstrated by using 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) substitution for individual nucleotide recognition rather than sequential interactions. This non-natural, motif-insensitive methylation disrupts ion current, resulting in a readout failure of 67.2%-100%, concealing the privacy within the DNAs. We further develop an alignment-free DeepSME basecaller as a key to reconstitute the digital information. Our three-stage training pipeline, expands k-mer size from 4

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DNANanoporesNanopore Sequencing5-MethylcytosineDeep LearningDNA MethylationSequence Analysis, DNA5-hydroxymethylcytosine5-MethylcytosineDNA

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PMCPMC12048662

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