From fdc83dd4e73aa63cd294bb18479c6b30fefb2760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David BIKARD <david.bikard@pasteur.fr> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:06:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ab8a079..6ebf4ed 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ # CRISPRbact -Tools to design and analyse CRISPRi experiments +**Tools to design and analyse CRISPRi experiments in bacteria.** + +CRISPRbact currently contains an on-target activity prediction tool for the Streptococcus pyogenes dCas9 protein. +This tool takes as an input the sequence of a gene of interest and returns a list of possible target sequences with the predicted on-target activity. Predictions are made using a linear model fitted on data from a genome-wide CRISPRi screen performed in E. coli (Cui et al. Nature Communications, 2018). The model predicts the ability of dCas9 to block the RNA polymerase when targeting the non-template strand (i.e. the coding strand) of a target gene. ## Getting Started -- GitLab