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Super-accuracy rebasecalling of nanopore data for Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 markedly improved assembly identity and gene completeness, while methylation calls stayed strongly concordant (Pearson’s r up to 0.96).
- Why it matters: Nanopore-only eukaryotic assembly and direct methylation profiling depend on rapid improvements in chemistry, basecalling, and workflows, but their combined impact needed empirical evaluation in a plant genome.
- What they did: The study generated nanopore-only assemblies from earlier R9.4.1 and R10.4 flow cells, then applied super-accuracy rebasecalling; it compared methylation calls to bisulphite sequencing at shared covered sites and also assembled 14.3 Gb R10.4.1 simplex reads using hifiasm.
- The result: Methylation concordance was strong (Pearson’s r = 0.93 for R9.4.1 and 0.96 for R10.4), and the R10.4.1 hifiasm assembly yielded five contigs totaling 134.93 Mb with 99.9% complete BUSCO genes and 99.98% one-to-one identity to TAIR12.
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