[HTML][HTML] Quality control, modeling, and visualization of CRISPR screens with MAGeCK-VISPR

W Li, J Köster, H Xu, CH Chen, T Xiao, JS Liu, M Brown… - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Genome biology, 2015Springer
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 …
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 http://bitbucket.org/liulab/mageck-vispr .
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