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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2026

umite: fast quantification of Smart-seq3 libraries with improved UMI retrieval.

Leo Carl Foerster, Enrico Frigoli, Xiaoyu Sun, Jooa Hooli, Angela Goncalves, Ana Martin-Villalba

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Leo Carl FoersterMolecular Neurobiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg 69120, Germany.
Enrico FrigoliMolecular Neurobiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg 69120, Germany.
Xiaoyu SunMolecular Neurobiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg 69120, Germany.
Jooa HooliMolecular Neurobiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg 69120, Germany.
Angela GoncalvesComputational and Molecular Prevention, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg 69120, Germany.
Ana Martin-VillalbaMolecular Neurobiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg 69120, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9405-8910

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motivationCommercial solutions like 10X cellranger provide robust UMI quantification for their proprietary single-cell protocols, but open methods such as Smart-seq3 lack comparable support.

resultsHere, we introduce umite, a Smart-seq3 UMI counting pipeline with a focus on speed and a light memory footprint. Unlike existing tools, umite offers efficient mismatch-tolerant UMI detection, boosting UMI retrieval by 5%-15% in benchmarks. It also outperforms current Smart-seq3 quantification tools in runtime, disk usage, and memory footprint, offering better scalability on large datasets. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: umite is available at https://github.com/leoforster/umite (or via Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18166431) and includes a Snakemake workflow for Smart-seq3 quantification.

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Gene LibraryHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingSingle-Cell AnalysisSoftware

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