Prediction of activity and specificity of CRISPR-Cpf1 using convolutional deep learning neural networks.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: CRISPR-Cpf1 has recently been reported as another RNA-guided endonuclease of class 2 CRISPR-Cas system, which expands the molecular biology toolkit for genome editing. However, most of the online tools and applications to date have been developed primarily for the Cas9. There are a limited number of tools available for the Cpf1.

Authors

  • Jiesi Luo
    College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, PR China.
  • Wei Chen
    Department of Urology, Zigong Fourth People's Hospital, Sichuan, China.
  • Li Xue
    HDU-ITMO Joint Institute, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China.
  • Bin Tang
    Basic Medical College , Southwest Medical University , Luzhou , Sichuan , China.