Nature Communications (May 2022)

Comparative optimization of combinatorial CRISPR screens

  • Ruitong Li,
  • Olaf Klingbeil,
  • Davide Monducci,
  • Michael J. Young,
  • Diego J. Rodriguez,
  • Zaid Bayyat,
  • Joshua M. Dempster,
  • Devishi Kesar,
  • Xiaoping Yang,
  • Mahdi Zamanighomi,
  • Christopher R. Vakoc,
  • Takahiro Ito,
  • William R. Sellers

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30196-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Combinatorial CRISPR screens can be utilized to identify genetic interactions and functional redundancies of multiple genes. Here, the authors benchmark ten digenic CRISPR technologies and identify novel Cas9 tracrRNA combinations that show superior performance.