A signal processing and deep learning framework for methylation detection using Oxford Nanopore sequencing
Mian Umair Ahsan,
Anagha Gouru,
Joe Chan,
Wanding Zhou and
Kai Wang ()
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Mian Umair Ahsan: Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Anagha Gouru: Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Joe Chan: Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Wanding Zhou: Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Kai Wang: Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-21
Abstract:
Abstract Oxford Nanopore sequencing can detect DNA methylations from ionic current signal of single molecules, offering a unique advantage over conventional methods. Additionally, adaptive sampling, a software-controlled enrichment method for targeted sequencing, allows reduced representation methylation sequencing that can be applied to CpG islands or imprinted regions. Here we present DeepMod2, a comprehensive deep-learning framework for methylation detection using ionic current signal from Nanopore sequencing. DeepMod2 implements both a bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) model and a Transformer model and can analyze POD5 and FAST5 signal files generated on R9 and R10 flowcells. Additionally, DeepMod2 can run efficiently on central processing unit (CPU) through model pruning and can infer epihaplotypes or haplotype-specific methylation calls from phased reads. We use multiple publicly available and newly generated datasets to evaluate the performance of DeepMod2 under varying scenarios. DeepMod2 has comparable performance to Guppy and Dorado, which are the current state-of-the-art methods from Oxford Nanopore Technologies that remain closed-source. Moreover, we show a high correlation (r = 0.96) between reduced representation and whole-genome Nanopore sequencing. In summary, DeepMod2 is an open-source tool that enables fast and accurate DNA methylation detection from whole-genome or adaptive sequencing data on a diverse range of flowcell types.
Date: 2024
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