Figure 2.
ADEPT and CUSUM+ analysis applied to a simulated nanopore measurement (gray). Two events with the same current blockade (red) but different residence times (tres), with respect to the system characteristic relaxation time (τ) are shown. (Left) For a long event (tres ≥ 5τ), the ionic current converges close to its steady-state value, and the current levels estimated by ADEPT and CUSUM+ are equivalent. (Right) For short events (e.g., tres ≈ 2τ), the current does not reach the steady-state value of the idealized pulse (red). In this case, CUSUM+ and other algorithms used in nanopore analysis systematically underestimate the steady-state current (blue) by an amount Δi (gray; dashed). In contrast, the physical model underlying ADEPT allows the algorithm to accurately estimate an event’s steady-state current.