FLARE: a Long-Read Nanopore Fragmentomics Pipeline Integrating Copy Number, Methylation, and End-Motif Analysis for Liquid Biopsy
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ABSTRACT: Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) fragmentation patterns encode biologically and clinically relevant information beyond fragment length, reflecting nuclease activity, chromatin organization, and tissue of origin. Fragmentomics has therefore emerged as a promising strategy to enhance circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detection, particularly in cancers with low tumor fractions. However, most existing approaches are optimized for short-read sequencing, limiting their applicability to third-generation platforms. Here, we present FLARE (Fragmentation and Long-read Analysis of Regulatory Epigenetics), an integrated and scalable fragmentomics pipeline specifically optimized for Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing. FLARE preserves native cfDNA fragment ends and enables the simultaneous analysis of copy number alterations, tumor fraction estimation, methylation-derived signals, fragment length distributions, and 5′ end-motif profiles.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE317007 | GEO | 2026/04/01
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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