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ArticleGenome biology2026

DeepSAP: improved RNA-seq alignment by integrating transcriptome guidance with transformer-based splice junction scoring.

Fadel Berakdar, Thomas D Wu, Tong Zhu, Mehrzad Samadi, Pankaj Vats

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5 authors.

Fadel Berakdar *NVIDIA Corporation, 2788 San Tomas Expy, Santa Clara, 95051, CA, USA.
Thomas D Wu *Genentech, Inc, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, 94080, CA, USA.
Tong ZhuNVIDIA Corporation, 2788 San Tomas Expy, Santa Clara, 95051, CA, USA.
Mehrzad SamadiNVIDIA Corporation, 2788 San Tomas Expy, Santa Clara, 95051, CA, USA.
Pankaj VatsNVIDIA Corporation, 2788 San Tomas Expy, Santa Clara, 95051, CA, USA. pvats@nvidia.com.

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Abstract

Advancements in high-throughput sequencing have revolutionized transcriptomics, enabling insights into gene expression, splicing, and fusions. However, RNA-seq analysis remains challenging due to complex splice junctions, multi-mapped reads, and chimeric events. We present DeepSAP, which improves RNA-seq alignment by integrating GSNAP's transcriptome-guided genomic alignment with transformer-based splice-junction scoring. This synergy enhances splice-junction detection, indel identification, and resolution of complex splicing patterns. On the Baruzzo human simulated benchmark across complexities, DeepSAP achieves the highest mean F1-score for splice junction detection, outperforming DRAGEN, novoSplice, STAR, HISAT2, and Subjunc. DeepSAP captures intricate sequence patterns surrounding splice donor and acceptor sites, advancing RNA-seq analysis.

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RNA Splice SitesRNA SplicingSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, RNASoftwareTranscriptomeAlgorithmsGene Expression ProfilingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansRNA Splice Sites

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PMID42104452
PMCPMC13347891

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