Breaking Cas!

Seems like a great resource! The software can be found here , and the publication can be found here.

Can be used in several ways, but seems very useful to identify potential off target activity of a gRNA:

  • choose organism
  • input the gRNA followed by PAM (e.g. 20+3 bp) in FASTA format, e.g.:

>test

gctagctgagctgagcttgacgg (cgg=PAM in this case)

  • select nuclease
  • press submit

You can also input a longer sequence and Breaking Cas will suggest different gRNAs to target the region.

 

 

Life made up by 473 genes in 531 kb

Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome.

Hutchison CA 3rd, Chuang RY, Noskov VN, Assad-Garcia N, Deerinck TJ, Ellisman MH, Gill J, Kannan K, Karas BJ, Ma L, Pelletier JF, Qi ZQ, Richter RA, Strychalski EA, Sun L, Suzuki Y, Tsvetanova B, Wise KS, Smith HO, Glass JI, Merryman C, Gibson DG, Venter JC.

Science. 2016 Mar 25;351(6280):aad6253. doi: 10.1126/science.aad6253.

PMID: 27013737

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6280/aad6253

The Wermeling lab is happy to receive a grant from the Åke Wiberg Foundation!

“Stiftelsen skapades 1953 genom en donation av dåvarande överintendenten Åke Wiberg. Den har under sin existens gett anslag till vetenskaplig forskning och till vård och utbildning av barn och ungdom. Av hävd har Stiftelsen framför allt stött medicinsk forskning men även forskning inom humaniora och samhällsvetenskap.” link