Ares-GT: Design of guide RNAs targeting multiple genes for CRISPR-Cas experiments

PLoS One. 2020 Oct 21;15(10):e0241001. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241001. eCollection 2020.

Abstract

Guide RNA design for CRISPR genome editing of gene families is a challenging task as usually good candidate sgRNAs are tagged with low scores precisely because they match several locations in the genome, thus time-consuming manual evaluation of targets is required. To address this issues, I have developed ARES-GT, a Python local command line tool compatible with any operative system. ARES-GT allows the selection of candidate sgRNAs that match multiple input query sequences, in addition of candidate sgRNAs that specifically match each query sequence. It also contemplates the use of unmapped contigs apart from complete genomes thus allowing the use of any genome provided by user and being able to handle intraspecies allelic variability and individual polymorphisms. ARES-GT is available at GitHub (https://github.com/eugomin/ARES-GT.git).

MeSH terms

  • Arabidopsis / genetics
  • Arabidopsis Proteins / genetics*
  • CRISPR-Cas Systems*
  • Programming Languages
  • RNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems / genetics*
  • Software*

Substances

  • Arabidopsis Proteins
  • RNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems

Grants and funding

The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.