PLoS ONE (Jan 2019)

AlleleProfileR: A versatile tool to identify and profile sequence variants in edited genomes.

  • Arne A N Bruyneel,
  • Alexandre R Colas,
  • Ioannis Karakikes,
  • Mark Mercola

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226694
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 12
p. e0226694

Abstract

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Gene editing strategies, such as zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat/Cas9 (CRISPR/Cas9), are revolutionizing biology. However, quantitative and sensitive detection of targeted mutations are required to evaluate and quantify the genome editing outcomes. Here we present AlleleProfileR, a new analysis tool, written in a combination of R and C++, with the ability to batch process the sequence analysis of large and complex genome editing experiments, including the recently developed base editing technologies.