Integration of high-resolution promoter profiling assays reveals novel, cell type-specific transcription start sites across 115 human cell and tissue types
Moore J, Zhang X, Elhajjajy S, Fan K, Pratt H, Reese F, Mortazavi A, Weng Z. Integration of high-resolution promoter profiling assays reveals novel, cell type-specific transcription start sites across 115 human cell and tissue types. Genome Research 2021, 32: gr.275723.121. PMID: 34949670, PMCID: PMC8805725, DOI: 10.1101/gr.275723.121.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTranscription start site annotationTranscription start siteGenome-wide association studiesStart siteAccurate transcription start siteCell type-specific usageMapping of promotersPaired-end informationPaired-end readsAnalysis of gene expressionTranscriptomic data setsGENCODE genesRNA annotationGWAS genesPaired-endGenomic positionsGene collectionTissue typesAssociation studiesTranscriptional regulationTranscription assaysBiological communitiesGene expressionHuman diseasesHuman cellsGenome-wide detection and analysis of CRISPR-Cas off-targets
Rodríguez T, Dadafarin S, Pratt H, Liu P, Amrani N, Zhu L. Genome-wide detection and analysis of CRISPR-Cas off-targets. Progress In Nucleic Acid Research And Molecular Biology 2021, 181: 31-43. PMID: 34127199, DOI: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2021.01.012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProtospacer-adjacent motifOff-target identificationGUIDE-seqGenome-wide detectionHigh-throughput sequencingShort Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) technologyOff-target sitesSequencing platformsThroughput sequencingTreat human diseasesOpen-source pipelineDocker imageHuman diseasesGene editingOff-targetsBiological studiesIncreased multiplexingProfiling approachSequenceIn vivoBioconductorSgRNAMotifRNAIdentification