WGE: a CRISPR database for genome engineering
The rapid development of CRISPR-Cas9 mediated genome editing techniques has given rise to a number of online and stand-alone tools to find and score CRISPR sites for whole genomes. Here we describe the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Genome Editing database (WGE), which uses novel methods to compute...
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Published in | Bioinformatics Vol. 31; no. 18; pp. 3078 - 3080 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
England
Oxford University Press
15.09.2015
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Summary: | The rapid development of CRISPR-Cas9 mediated genome editing techniques has given rise to a number of online and stand-alone tools to find and score CRISPR sites for whole genomes. Here we describe the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Genome Editing database (WGE), which uses novel methods to compute, visualize and select optimal CRISPR sites in a genome browser environment. The WGE database currently stores single and paired CRISPR sites and pre-calculated off-target information for CRISPRs located in the mouse and human exomes. Scoring and display of off-target sites is simple, and intuitive, and filters can be applied to identify high-quality CRISPR sites rapidly. WGE also provides a tool for the design and display of gene targeting vectors in the same genome browser, along with gene models, protein translation and variation tracks. WGE is open, extensible and can be set up to compute and present CRISPR sites for any genome.
The WGE database is freely available at www.sanger.ac.uk/htgt/wge
: vvi@sanger.ac.uk or skarnes@sanger.ac.uk
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Associate Editor: Jonathan Wren |
ISSN: | 1367-4803 1367-4811 1460-2059 |
DOI: | 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv308 |