"Off-Spotter": Very fast and exhaustive enumeration of genomic lookalikes for designing CRISPR/Cas guide RNAs

Biology Direct

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Pliatsika, Venetia ^a   Rigoutsos, Isidore ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cas endonucleases; Cas9; CRISPR; gRNAs; Guide RNAs; Hashing; Indexing; Off targets

Indexed keywords

PROKARYOTA;

ENDONUCLEASE; GUIDE RNA;

ALGORITHM; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; ENDONUCLEASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOMICS; HUMANS; RNA, GUIDE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84924333960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13062-015-0035-z     Document Type: Article

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