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Guide Picker is a comprehensive design tool for visualizing and selecting guides for CRISPR experiments.

Authors :
Hough, Soren H.
Kancleris, Kris
Brody, Leigh
Humphryes-Kirilov, Neil
Wolanski, Joseph
Dunaway, Keith
Ajetunmobi, Ayokunmi
Dillard, Victor
Source :
BMC Bioinformatics. 3/14/2017, Vol. 18, p1-10. 10p. 1 Diagram, 5 Graphs.
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

Background: Guide Picker (https://www.deskgen.com/guide-picker/) serves as a meta tool for designing CRISPR experiments by presenting ten different guide RNA scoring functions in one simple graphical interface. It allows investigators to simultaneously visualize and sort through every guide targeting the protein-coding regions of any mouse or human gene. Results: Utilizing a multidimensional graphical display featuring two plots and four axes, Guide Picker can analyze all guides while filtering based on four different criteria at a time. Guide Picker further facilitates the CRISPR design process by using pre-computed scores for all guides, thereby offering rapid guide RNA generation and selection. Conclusions: The ease-of-use of Guide Picker complements CRISPR itself, matching a powerful and modular biological system with a flexible online web tool that can be used in a variety of genome editing experimental contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
14712105
Volume :
18
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
BMC Bioinformatics
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
121897878
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-017-1581-4