Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design
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...Morgens et al. contains three types of guides: 1) targeting guides (blue), which target all protein-coding..., the toxicity of guides with off-target sites was profiled. Guides with exact or 1-bp mismatch off-targets...) or short (17-18 bp) guides. When comparing the toxicity of guides that have 1-bp mismatch off-target...
Figure 1: Summary of the advantages of the new approach to genome-wide CRISPR screen design.
Bassik... in both screens, with the growth screen having a 1% false discovery rate and identifying >88% of previously...characteristics that influence gRNA off-target activity: 1) mismatches closer to the PAM are less tolerated than...Knockout Library are available from Addgene!
References
1. Morgens, David W., et al. "Genome-scale measurement...