CCTop: An Intuitive, Flexible and Reliable CRISPR/Cas9 Target Prediction Tool.

Engineering of the CRISPR/Cas9 system has opened a plethora of new opportunities for site-directed mutagenesis and targeted genome modification. Fundamental to this is a stretch of twenty nucleotides at the 5' end of a guide RNA that provides specificity to the bound Cas9 endonuclease. Since a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Manuel Stemmer, Thomas Thumberger, Maria Del Sol Keyer, Joachim Wittbrodt, Juan L Mateo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4409221?pdf=render