TALENoffer: genome-wide TALEN off-target prediction

Bioinformatics. 2013 Nov 15;29(22):2931-2. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt501. Epub 2013 Aug 30.

Abstract

Summary: Transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) have become an accepted tool for targeted mutagenesis, but undesired off-targets remain an important issue. We present TALENoffer, a novel tool for the genome-wide prediction of TALEN off-targets. We show that TALENoffer successfully predicts known off-targets of engineered TALENs and yields a competitive runtime, scanning complete mammalian genomes within a few minutes.

Availability: TALENoffer is available as a command line program from http://www.jstacs.de/index.php/TALENoffer and as a Galaxy server at http://galaxy.informatik.uni-halle.de.

Contact: grau@informatik.uni-halle.de

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • DNA-Binding Proteins / metabolism
  • Endodeoxyribonucleases / metabolism*
  • Genome
  • Models, Statistical
  • Mutagenesis
  • Protein Engineering
  • Software*

Substances

  • DNA-Binding Proteins
  • Endodeoxyribonucleases