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Nanopore sequencing is a third generation [1] approach used in the sequencing of biopolymers — specifically, polynucleotides in the form of DNA or RNA. Nanopore sequencing allows a single molecule of DNA or RNA be sequenced without PCR amplification or chemical labeling.
Given a set of contigs, the N50 is defined as the sequence length of the shortest contig at 50% of the total assembly length. It can be thought of as the point of half of the mass of the distribution; the number of bases from all contigs longer than the N50 will be close to the number of bases from all contigs shorter than the N50 .
Base calling is the process of assigning nucleobases to chromatogram peaks, light intensity signals, or electrical current changes resulting from nucleotides passing through a nanopore. One computer program for accomplishing this job is Phred , which is a widely used base calling software program by both academic and commercial DNA sequencing ...
Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology is costly, [12] and therefore Pore-C is more expensive per run when compared to other chromatin conformation capture techniques. Pore-C throughput is relatively low when compared to other techniques, particularly due to DNA-bound proteins clogging sequencing pores.
Phred quality scores shown on a DNA sequence trace. A Phred quality score is a measure of the quality of the identification of the nucleobases generated by automated DNA sequencing. [1] [2] It was originally developed for the computer program Phred to help in the automation of DNA sequencing in the Human Genome Project.
Nanopore-based sequencing also offers a route for direct methylation sequencing without fragmentation or modification to the original DNA. Nanopore sequencing has been used to sequence the methylomes of bacteria, which are dominated by 6mA and 4mC (as opposed to 5mC in eukaryotes), but this technique has not yet been scaled down to single cells ...
Schematic of Nanopore Internal Machinery and corresponding current blockade during sequencing. A nanopore is a pore of nanometer size. It may, for example, be created by a pore-forming protein or as a hole in synthetic materials such as silicon or graphene.
The tools used at this stage depend on the sequencing platform. For instance, FastQC checks the quality of short reads (including RNA sequences), Nanoplot or PycoQC are used for long read sequences (e.g. Nanopore sequence reads), and MultiQC aggregates the result of FastQC in a webpage format. [11] [12] [13]