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<div align="center"> <img src="img/jasmine-logo.png" alt="jasmine logo" width="135px" align="center"/> <h1>Jasmine</h1> <p>Call select base modifications in PacBio HiFi reads</p> </div>

jasmine identifies specific base modifications in PacBio HiFi reads by analyzing polymerase kinetic signatures. The current models support detecting 5-Methylcytosine (5mC) at CpG sites and N6-Methyladenine (6mA) in Fiber-seq data. For 5mC, the caller assumes that methylation is symmetric at the CpG site and reports methylation on the forward strand of the read. In contrast, the 6mA caller provides strand-specific results. The 6mA calls are compatible with Fiber-seq downstream analysis tools, such as fibertools (Jha 2024).

Availability

Latest version can be installed via bioconda package pbjasmine.

Please refer to our official pbbioconda page for information on Installation, Support, License, Copyright, and Disclaimer.

Latest Version

Version 2.4.0: Full changelog here

Input Data

Input for jasmine are PacBio HiFi reads with kinetics. For more info see ccs.how:

Execution

Running jasmine is as simple as:

jasmine movie.hifi_reads.bam movie.methylation.hifi_reads.bam

Output Data

The output methylation prediction for each annotated HiFi read is encoded in the MM and ML tags, defined in the SAM tag specification. The MM tag specifies the modification and to which base it applies. The ML tag specifies the probability of methylation at each base.

The output is also described in the PacBio BAM file format documentation as

TagTypeDescription
MMZBase modifications / methylation
MLB,CBase modification probabilities

Notes for ML: The continuous probability range of 0.0 to 1.0 is remapped to the discrete integers 0 to 255 inclusively. The probability range corresponding to an integer N is N/256 to (N + 1)/256. The ML tag presents the probabilities in the order of modifications seen in the MM tag.

Example

Read  AGTCTAGACTCCGTAATTACTCGCCTAG...
C        1    2 34       5 6 78
CpG              *         *

MM:Z:C+m,3,1,...   # CpG sites are at C #4 (1+3) and #6 (1+3+1+1)
ML:B:C,249,4,...   # probability of methylation at the first CpG is in [249/256,250/256); second CpG is in [4/256,5/256).

Model training

The jasmine methylation models are trained using a supervised learning approach with curated positive and negative datasets.

ModelPositive datasetsNegative datasets
5mCpGHG002 WGA + M.SssIHG002 WGA
6mAHG002 Fiber-seqHG002 WGS, HG002 Fiber-seq

For the HG002 Fiber-seq training dataset, positive and negative labels were generated using fibertools predict-m6A (Jha 2024).

Changelog