WU-CRISPR: Characteristics of functional guide RNAs for the CRISPR/Cas9 system

Genome Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Wong, Nathan ^a,b   Liu, Weijun ^b   Wang, Xiaowei ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; SINGLE GUIDE RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WU CRISPR; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; THERMODYNAMICS;

CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENOMICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84945926658     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0784-0     Document Type: Article

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