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Genopo: a nanopore sequencing analysis toolkit for portable Android devices.

Hiruna Samarakoon¹, Sanoj Punchihewa¹, Anjana Senanayake¹

¹Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

Communications Biology

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Summary

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Genopo is a new mobile toolkit for portable nanopore sequencing analysis. This Android application enables rapid, offline genome sequencing and analysis on smartphones, facilitating field and clinical genomics.

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Area of Science:

Genomics
Bioinformatics
Mobile Computing

Background:

Portable nanopore sequencing devices allow for field and clinical DNA/RNA analysis.
In situ genomics necessitates portable, offline computational solutions for sequencing data.
Existing bioinformatics tools require significant computational resources, limiting portability.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce Genopo, a mobile toolkit for portable nanopore sequencing data analysis.
To enable fully portable, offline computation for in situ genome analysis.
To demonstrate the utility of Genopo for rapid genome sequencing and analysis on smartphones.

Main Methods:

Genopo compacts popular bioinformatics tools into an Android application.
The toolkit was used to sequence and analyze SARS-CoV-2 genomes from patient isolates.
DNA methylation profiling was performed on a human genome sample using Genopo.

Main Results:

Genopo successfully determined the complete genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 in nine patient isolates.
The analysis workflow executed in under 30 minutes per sample on popular smartphones.
Genopo demonstrated flexibility in profiling DNA methylation and accommodating various genome sizes.

Conclusions:

Genopo provides the first smartphone application for nanopore sequencing analysis, enabling portable genomics.
The toolkit offers a flexible, efficient architecture suitable for diverse bioinformatics tools and genomes.
Genopo leverages ubiquitous smartphone computational resources for accessible, in situ genomic analysis.