Genome-wide Screening Using CRISPR
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Blog Post
Published
Aug. 18, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
...Pooled gRNAs are then cloned into lentiviral transfer vectors to create the CRISPR library.
CRISPR libraries...Libraries
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Figure 1: Like...pooled CRISPR library is a complex mixture. Pooled libraries are composed of many different gRNA-containing...genomic target. The goal of a CRISPR screen is to use Cas9 and a pool of gRNAs to identify genes that are...