CRISPR Between the Genes: How to Experiment with Enhancers and Epigenomics
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 9, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...for the 2+ million DHS sites. See below for further details.
DNA is a 3D Fractal
Figure 2: DNA compaction...:
1. Find Enhancers that have NANOG binding sites
2. Design a CRISPR screen to target and disrupt the ...NANOG enhancers
3. CRISPR out the enhancers from step 2. See which ESCs die or differentiate
Step 3 reveals...expression for NANOG enhancers, we’re ready for step 2: design a CRISPR screen to disrupt these enhancers...to CRISPR out the enhancers we identified in step 2. The result is a heterogenous population of stem cells...determination was established with Bowtie2 using the parameters first described in Kearns et al.:
bowtie2 -f ...