Largest study of CRISPR-Cas9 mutations creates prediction tool for gene editing

(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) The largest study of CRISPR action to date has developed a method to predict the exact mutations CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing can introduce to a cell. Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute edited 40,000 different pieces of DNA and analysed a thousand million resulting DNA sequences to develop the machine learning predictive tool. Reported today in Nature Biotechnology the new resource will help make CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing more reliable, cheaper and more efficient.
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