Deep-RPA: Vulnerability Classification of a Genome for CRISPR/Cas9 Off-targets
Current Bioinformatics
Background: Researchers working in genome engineering are making fast strides to precising the te... more Background: Researchers working in genome engineering are making fast strides to precising the techniques of site-specific gene editing. CRISPR-Cas (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is one of the most recent gene editing techniques. It consists of a Cas9 nuclease and a single guided RNA (sgRNA) that targets DNA at the required target site. Consequently, along with on-targets, genomes may also have multiple off-targets, which is a potential drawback of gene editing techniques. Lab-based assays are used to examine the off-target effects of sgRNA. This challenge makes the technique questionable in terms of cost, time and efficacy. Deep learning techniques have been used efficiently to analyze biological data and calculate off-target sites in the genome. This research aims to identify CRISPR off-targets within the genome as well as predict genome vulnerability for unexpected mutations using a deep learning approach. Method: This study presents a two-step data p...
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