Bioinformatics approaches to analyzing CRISPR screen data: from dropout screens to single‐cell CRISPR screens

Y Zhao, M Zhang, D Yang - Quantitative Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Pooled CRISPR screen is a promising tool in drug targets or essential genes
identification with the utilization of three different systems including CRISPR knockout …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell normalization and association testing unifying CRISPR screen and gene co-expression analyses with Normalisr

L Wang - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides unprecedented technical and statistical
potential to study gene regulation but is subject to technical variations and sparsity …

The SpliZ generalizes 'percent spliced in'to reveal regulated splicing at single-cell resolution

JE Olivieri, R Dehghannasiri, J Salzman - Nature methods, 2022 - nature.com
Detecting single-cell-regulated splicing from droplet-based technologies is challenging.
Here, we introduce the splicing Z score (SpliZ), an annotation-free statistical method to …

Discovery of target genes and pathways of blood trait loci using pooled CRISPR screens and single cell RNA sequencing

JA Morris, Z Daniloski, J Domingo, T Barry, M Ziosi… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The majority of variants associated with complex traits and common diseases identified by
genome-wide association studies (GWAS) map to noncoding regions of the genome with …

[HTML][HTML] Computational identification of clonal cells in single-cell CRISPR screens

Y Wang, S Xie, D Armendariz, GC Hon - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background Single-cell CRISPR screens are powerful tools to understand genome function
by linking genetic perturbations to transcriptome-wide phenotypes. However, since few cells …

CRISPR screens identify gene targets and drug repositioning opportunities at breast cancer risk loci

NK Tuano, J Beesley, M Manning, W Shi… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified> 200 loci associated with breast
cancer (BC) risk. The majority of candidate causal variants (CCVs) are in non-coding …

Normalisr: normalization and association testing for single-cell CRISPR screen and co-expression

L Wang - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides unprecedented technical and statistical
potential to study gene regulation but is subject to technical variations and sparsity. Here we …