De novo Nanopore read quality improvement using deep learning.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Long read sequencing technologies such as Oxford Nanopore can greatly decrease the complexity of de novo genome assembly and large structural variation identification. Currently Nanopore reads have high error rates, and the errors often cluster into low-quality segments within the reads. The limited sensitivity of existing read-based error correction methods can cause large-scale mis-assemblies in the assembled genomes, motivating further innovation in this area.

Authors

  • Nathan LaPierre
  • Rob Egan
    Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, USA.
  • Wei Wang
    State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macau 999078, China.
  • Zhong Wang
    Department of Intensive Care Unit, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.