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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2026

CurrentView: a tool for visualization and comparison of nanopore ionic current signals.

Pooria Daneshvar Kakhaki, Neda Ghohabi Esfahani, Stuart Akeson, Miten Jain

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2026. 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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  1. Integrating mass spectrometry with Nanopore direct RNA sequencing forbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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Pooria Daneshvar KakhakiDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, United States.
Neda Ghohabi EsfahaniDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, United States.
Stuart AkesonDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, United States.
Miten JainDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4571-3982

Funding

MFB: Integrating LC-MS/MS and Nanopore Sequencing Platforms to Enable the Direct and Quantatative Detection of RNA ModificationsR01HG013876 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Kristin S Koutmou · 2024 to 2026
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NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG013876NIH HHS HG013876
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Abstract

summaryNanopore sequencing measures ionic current as native DNA or RNA molecules move through a biological pore. The resulting ionic current changes are inferred into sequence by Oxford Nanopore Technologies' Dorado basecaller. These data permit direct analysis of nucleotide sequences and modifications. The Dorado basecaller also outputs a move-table that contains approximate mappings between ionic current signal and basecalled sequence. This ionic current information can be visualized at specific positions given the alignment between a read sequence and a reference sequence. We present CurrentView, a fast and user-friendly toolkit for reference-guided visualization of nanopore ionic current signals. CurrentView uses conventional sequence alignment and move-table information from BAM files and signal information from ONT POD5 files to extract and visualize ionic current traces at specific positions. The toolkit supports simultaneous comparison across multiple experimental conditions, computes summary statistics through kernel density estimation and histograms, and enables visual analysis of signal patterns associated with modifications or sequence context. Notably, CurrentView can visualize and analyze more than two conditions at once. It supports UMAP dimensionality reduction and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) clustering, enabling the identification of distinct signal populations across experimental groups. CurrentView is available as both a Python API and an exploratory interactive web application, allowing researchers to rapidly inspect ionic current patterns and compare conditions. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: CurrentView is fully open-source and available on GitHub https://github.com/genometechlab/currentview. The repository includes full documentation, an installation guide, usage instructions, and an example Jupyter notebook showing typical use cases similar to the one presented in the manuscript.

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NanoporesNanopore SequencingSoftwareDNASequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, DNADNA

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PMCPMC13091609

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