CRISPR–Cas9 gRNA efficiency prediction: an overview of predictive tools and the role of deep learning

V Konstantakos, A Nentidis, A Krithara… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated
protein 9 (Cas9) system has become a successful and promising technology for gene …

CRISPR technologies and the search for the PAM-free nuclease

D Collias, CL Beisel - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
The ever-expanding set of CRISPR technologies and their programmable RNA-guided
nucleases exhibit remarkable flexibility in DNA targeting. However, this flexibility comes with …

Multiplexed CRISPR technologies for gene editing and transcriptional regulation

NS McCarty, AE Graham, L Studená… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Multiplexed CRISPR technologies, in which numerous gRNAs or Cas enzymes are
expressed at once, have facilitated powerful biological engineering applications, vastly …

Optimized libraries for CRISPR-Cas9 genetic screens with multiple modalities

KR Sanson, RE Hanna, M Hegde, KF Donovan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The creation of genome-wide libraries for CRISPR knockout (CRISPRko), interference
(CRISPRi), and activation (CRISPRa) has enabled the systematic interrogation of gene …

Base-resolution models of transcription-factor binding reveal soft motif syntax

Ž Avsec, M Weilert, A Shrikumar, S Krueger… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The arrangement (syntax) of transcription factor (TF) binding motifs is an important part of the
cis-regulatory code, yet remains elusive. We introduce a deep learning model, BPNet, that …

DeepCRISPR: optimized CRISPR guide RNA design by deep learning

G Chuai, H Ma, J Yan, M Chen, N Hong, D Xue, C Zhou… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
A major challenge for effective application of CRISPR systems is to accurately predict the
single guide RNA (sgRNA) on-target knockout efficacy and off-target profile, which would …

Computational tools and resources for CRISPR/Cas genome editing

C Li, W Chu, RA Gill, S Sang, Y Shi, X Hu… - Genomics …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The past decade has witnessed a rapid evolution in identifying more versatile clustered
regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein (Cas) …

Optimized prime editing in monocot plants using PlantPegDesigner and engineered plant prime editors (ePPEs)

S Jin, Q Lin, Q Gao, C Gao - Nature Protocols, 2023 - nature.com
Prime editors (PEs), which can install desired base edits without donor DNA or double-
strand breaks, have been used in plants and can, in principle, accelerate crop improvement …

SpCas9 activity prediction by DeepSpCas9, a deep learning–based model with high generalization performance

HK Kim, Y Kim, S Lee, S Min, JY Bae, JW Choi… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
We evaluated SpCas9 activities at 12,832 target sequences using a high-throughput
approach based on a human cell library containing single-guide RNA–encoding and target …

Enhancing CRISPR-Cas9 gRNA efficiency prediction by data integration and deep learning

X Xiang, GI Corsi, C Anthon, K Qu, X Pan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The design of CRISPR gRNAs requires accurate on-target efficiency predictions, which
demand high-quality gRNA activity data and efficient modeling. To advance, we here report …