CRISPR-offinder-v1-2

CRISPR/Cas system undoubtedly holds great potential for genome editing. Target site cleavage by CRISPR technology requires a protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) immediately downstream or upstream of the protospacer element to which the sgRNA binds. However, Cas9 from different types of bacteria or variant recognizes different PAM sequences. To meet the needs of different CRISPR system with specific and efficient sgRNA design, CRISPR-offinder was developed.
Given an input FASTA file of the target sites and queries the reference genome as well as a CRISPR system with a defined spacer length and PAM sequence, this standalone tool will identify putative sites and assign a predicted activity based on support vector machine model which conducted by sgRNA Scorer 2.0. In addition, sgRNAs with minimal off-target activity were predicted by Cas-OFFinder, and score with Off-Target Cutting Frequency Determination (CFD).