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BMC GENOMICS
卷 22, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-021-08129-5
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CRISPR-Cas9 screens; core-fitness genes; cancer dependency; algorithms; benchmark
CRISPR-Cas9 genome-wide screens are crucial for exploring cancer dependencies, with identifying core-fitness genes being essential for assessing therapeutic target safety and understanding tissue-specific genetic diseases. CoRe, an R package, outperforms other tools in identifying reliable and biologically relevant core-fitness genes, aiding in the prioritization of therapeutic targets.
Background CRISPR-Cas9 genome-wide screens are being increasingly performed, allowing systematic explorations of cancer dependencies at unprecedented accuracy and scale. One of the major computational challenges when analysing data derived from such screens is to identify genes that are essential for cell survival invariantly across tissues, conditions, and genomic-contexts (core-fitness genes), and to distinguish them from context-specific essential genes. This is of paramount importance to assess the safety profile of candidate therapeutic targets and for elucidating mechanisms involved in tissue-specific genetic diseases. Results We have developed CoRe: an R package implementing existing and novel methods for the identification of core-fitness genes (at two different level of stringency) from joint analyses of multiple CRISPR-Cas9 screens. We demonstrate, through a fully reproducible benchmarking pipeline, that CoRe outperforms state-of-the-art tools, yielding more reliable and biologically relevant sets of core-fitness genes. Conclusions CoRe offers a flexible pipeline, compatible with many pre-processing methods for the analysis of CRISPR data, which can be tailored onto different use-cases. The CoRe package can be used for the identification of high-confidence novel core-fitness genes, as well as a means to filter out potentially cytotoxic hits while analysing cancer dependency datasets for identifying and prioritising novel selective therapeutic targets.
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