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Multi-Dimensional Spatiotemporal Attention Neural Network for Next Generation Sequencing Basecalling

Created on 09 Nov 2025

Authors

Peng, K., Chen, W., Yao, T., Xia, H., Fu, G., Li, G., Bao, Y., Liu, E., Zhao, L., Wang, G.

Abstract

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) remains the most used sequencing technique in the field of genomics. Traditional basecall methods face significant challenges in decoding high density sequencing data due to inherent noise in biochemical reactions and limitations of instruments. Here, we present a multi-dimensional deep learning neural network based on spatiotemporal attention mechanism named AICall. The network skips computationally heavy but less effective steps of peak finding and brightness extraction/correction, and directly basecalls from the time sequence of multi-dimensional image stacks obtained in real time. By introducing attention mechanism, it effectively extracts spatial and time-related key information including spatial crosstalk, spectral crosstalk, phasing, base-quenching, and intensity decay, and significantly improves basecall accuracy. We demonstrate that AICall achieves an average error rate less than 0.01% and provides more reliable sequencing results for downstream analysis.

Preprint server: bioRxiv
The authors list and abstract were imported from bioRxiv on 09 Nov 2025.

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