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High-resolution single-molecule replication profiling of the human genome

Tourancheau, A.; Rojat, V.; Ciardo, D.; Proux, F.; Lacroix, L.; Arbona, J.-M.; Audit, B.; Hyrien, O.; Le Tallec, B.

2026-07-20 genomics
10.64898/2026.07.15.738623 bioRxiv
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Despite the considerable progress made in recent years thanks to the rise of long-read sequencing, high-resolution, single molecule (SM)-based replication profiling of large genomes has remained out of reach. Here, we present a replication labelling strategy consisting in repeated pulse-labelling of asynchronously growing cells with the thymidine analogue bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) that greatly enhances the number of detectable replication tracks. We show that the multipulse BrdU labelling protocol, in association with ForkML, a machine-learning method translating BrdU signals in nanopore reads into oriented and positioned replication forks, enables the establishment of a SM replication map of the entire human genome at kilobase resolution.

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