DeepMod: a deep-learning tool for genomic-scale, strand-sensitive and single-nucleotide based detection of DNA modifications
DeepMod is a computational tool which takes long-read signals as input and outputs modification summary for each genomic position in a reference genome together with modification prediction for each base in a long read. The modification prediction model in DeepMod is a well-trained bidirectional recurrent neural network (RNN) with long short-term memory (LSTM) units. LSTM RNN is a class of artificial neural network for modeling sequential behaviors with LSTM to preclude vanishing gradient problem. To detect DNA modifications, normalized signals of events in a long read were rescaled from -5 and 5, and signal mean, standard deviation and the number of signals together with base information (denoted by 7-feature description) were obtained for each event as input of a LSTM unit with 100 hidden nodes. In DeepMod with 3 hidden layers in RNN. Predicted modification summary for each position would be generated in a BED format, suggesting how many reads cover genomic positions, how many mapped bases in long reads were predicted to be modified and the coverage percentage of prediction modifications. This modification prediction by DeepMod is strand-sensitive and single-nucleotide based.
The input of DeepMod is Nanopore long read data together a refrence genome.
DeepMod is based on deep learning framework, and needs to access raw data of Nanopore sequencing. Thus, it needs enough RAM to support deep learning framework and enough hard drive for raw data of Nanopore sequencing. GPU can substantially speedup the detection process. For optimal performance, we recommend a computer with:
- RAM: 20+ GB per thread
- GPU or CPU with 8+ cores
- HDD or better with SSD. Dependent on how large raw data is (for 30X E coli data, it might need 10+GB, while for 30X human data, it might need 10+TB)
The developmental version of DeepMod has been tested on Linux operating system: CentOS 7.0 with both CPU and GPU machines.
Now, DeepMod does not support multi-fast5 and Move table. For multi-fast5 issue, one can use API at https://github.com/nanoporetech/ont_fast5_api to convert multi-fast5 to single fast5 file, and then re-basecall to get event information as input of DeepMod. We have been working on improvement of DeepMod to support both multi-fast5 and Move table.
Please refer to Installation for how to install DeepMod.
Please refer to Usage for how to use DeepMod.
Please refer to Examples and Reproducibility for examples of how to run DeepMod.
For release history, please visit here. For details, please go here.
If you have any questions/issues/bugs, please post them on GitHub. They would also be helpful to other users.
Please cite the publication below if you use our tool:
Q. Liu, L. Fang, G. Yu, D. Wang, C. Xiao, K. Wang. Detection of DNA base modifications by deep recurrent neural network on Oxford Nanopore sequencing data. Nat. Commun 10, 2019. Online at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10168-2.