Abstract
With the introduction of cyber-physical genome sequencing and editing technologies, such as CRISPR, researchers can more easily access tools to investigate and create remedies for a variety of topics in genetics and health science (e.g. agriculture and medicine). As the field advances and grows, new concerns present themselves in the ability to predict the off-target behavior. In this work, we explore the underlying biological and chemical model from a data driven perspective. Additionally, we present a machine learning based solution named Guide-Guard to predict the behavior of the system given a gRNA in the CRISPR gene-editing process with 84% accuracy. This solution is able to be trained on multiple different genes at the same time while retaining accuracy.
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Cas stands for CRISPR-associated and is a protein required for DNA/RNA editing.
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Bingham, J., Arussy, N., Zonouz, S. (2022). Guide-Guard: Off-Target Predicting in CRISPR Applications. In: Yin, H., Camacho, D., Tino, P. (eds) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2022. IDEAL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13756. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21753-1_41
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