Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design
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Blog Post
Published
Sept. 13, 2018, 1:55 p.m.
...CRISPR screen design.
Unanswered questions about genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen design
Are non-targeting...Short gRNAs have lower off-target cutting and similar on-targeting cutting as full-length gRNAs
Lastly...pitfalls exist for CRISPR screens and how best to design these screens to controls for flaws. Recently the...that while they control for many of the effects of gRNA and Cas9 expression, they fail to account for the...of the new approach to genome-wide CRISPR screen design.
Bassik lab’s CRISPR knockout libraries
Overview...lab created a human knockout library that has 10 gRNAs per gene and targets all ~20,500 protein-coding ...identified in a CRISPR knockout screen.
Improving the Design of CRISPR Knockout Screens
Before diving into the...