Quality control, modeling, and visualization of CRISPR screens with MAGeCK-VISPR.

Genome Biol
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Abstract

High-throughput CRISPR screens have shown great promise in functional genomics. We present MAGeCK-VISPR, a comprehensive quality control (QC), analysis, and visualization workflow for CRISPR screens. MAGeCK-VISPR defines a set of QC measures to assess the quality of an experiment, and includes a maximum-likelihood algorithm to call essential genes simultaneously under multiple conditions. The algorithm uses a generalized linear model to deconvolute different effects, and employs expectation-maximization to iteratively estimate sgRNA knockout efficiency and gene essentiality. MAGeCK-VISPR also includes VISPR, a framework for the interactive visualization and exploration of QC and analysis results. MAGeCK-VISPR is freely available at .

Year of Publication
2015
Journal
Genome Biol
Volume
16
Pages
281
Date Published
2015 Dec 16
ISSN
1474-760X
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DOI
10.1186/s13059-015-0843-6
PubMed ID
26673418
PubMed Central ID
PMC4699372
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R01 GM113242 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States
R01 HG008728 / HG / NHGRI NIH HHS / United States
U01 CA180980 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States
R01 GM113242-01 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States