Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

A Molecular Chipper technology for CRISPR sgRNA library generation and functional mapping of noncoding regions

  • Jijun Cheng,
  • Christine A. Roden,
  • Wen Pan,
  • Shu Zhu,
  • Anna Baccei,
  • Xinghua Pan,
  • Tingting Jiang,
  • Yuval Kluger,
  • Sherman M. Weissman,
  • Shangqin Guo,
  • Richard A. Flavell,
  • Ye Ding,
  • Jun Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11178
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The interrogation of noncoding regions of the genome with CRISPR strategies requires dense and, ideally, inexpensive libraries to ensure coverage and customisation. Here the authors present 'Molecular Chipper' that uses fragmentation to generate guide RNAs from input DNA.