Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Predicting base editing outcomes with an attention-based deep learning algorithm trained on high-throughput target library screens

  • Kim F. Marquart,
  • Ahmed Allam,
  • Sharan Janjuha,
  • Anna Sintsova,
  • Lukas Villiger,
  • Nina Frey,
  • Michael Krauthammer,
  • Gerald Schwank

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25375-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Base editors enable precise genetic alterations but vary in efficiency at different loci. Here the authors analyse ABEs and CBEs at over 28,000 integrated sequences to train BE-DICT, a machine learning model capable of predicting base editing outcomes.