Nature Communications (May 2021)

CRISPECTOR provides accurate estimation of genome editing translocation and off-target activity from comparative NGS data

  • Ido Amit,
  • Ortal Iancu,
  • Alona Levy-Jurgenson,
  • Gavin Kurgan,
  • Matthew S. McNeill,
  • Garrett R. Rettig,
  • Daniel Allen,
  • Dor Breier,
  • Nimrod Ben Haim,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Leon Anavy,
  • Ayal Hendel,
  • Zohar Yakhini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22417-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The control of off-target activity is a challenge for adapting CRISPR to therapeutic use. Here the authors present CRISPECTOR, a software tool to detect, evaluate and quantify editing activity, including translocations, from NGS data.