searchHits: Search for off targets in a sequence as DNAString

In LihuaJulieZhu/CRISPRseek: Design of target-specific guide RNAs in CRISPR-Cas9, genome-editing systems

Search for off targets in a sequence as DNAString

Description

Search for off targets for given gRNAs, sequence and maximum mismatches

Usage

searchHits(
  gRNAs,
  seqs,
  seqname,
  max.mismatch = 3,
  PAM.size = 3,
  gRNA.size = 20,
  PAM = "NGG",
  PAM.pattern = "NNN$",
  allowed.mismatch.PAM = 2,
  PAM.location = "3prime",
  outfile,
  baseEditing = FALSE,
  targetBase = "C",
  editingWindow = 4:8
)

Arguments

gRNAs	DNAStringSet object containing a set of gRNAs. Please note the sequences must contain PAM appended after gRNAs, e.g., ATCGAAATTCGAGCCAATCCCGG where ATCGAAATTCGAGCCAATCC is the gRNA and CGG is the PAM
seqs	DNAString object containing a DNA sequence.
seqname	Specify the name of the sequence
max.mismatch	Maximum mismatch allowed in off target search, default 3. Warning: will be considerably slower if it is set to greater than 3
PAM.size	Size of PAM, default 3
gRNA.size	Size of gRNA, default 20
PAM	PAM as regular expression for appending to the gRNA, default NGG for SpCas9, change to TTTN for cpf1.
PAM.pattern	Regular expression of PAM, default N[A|G]G$ for spCas9. For cpf1, ^TTTN since it is a 5 prime PAM sequence
allowed.mismatch.PAM	Maximum number of mismatches allowed in the offtargets comparing to the PAM sequence. Default to 2 for NGG PAM
PAM.location	PAM location relative to gRNA. For example, spCas9 PAM is located on the 3 prime while cpf1 PAM is located on the 5 prime
outfile	File path to temporarily store the search results
baseEditing	Indicate whether to design gRNAs for base editing. Default to FALSE If TRUE, please set baseEditing = TRUE, targetBase and editingWidow accordingly.
targetBase	Applicable only when baseEditing is set to TRUE. It is used to indicate the target base for base editing systems, default to C for converting C to T in the CBE system. Please change it to A if you intend to use the ABE system.
editingWindow	Applicable only when baseEditing is set to TRUE. It is used to indicate the effective editing window to consider for the offtargets search only, default to 4 to 8 which is for the original CBE system. Please change it accordingly if the system you use have a different editing window, or you would like to include offtargets with the target base in a larger editing window.

Value

a data frame contains

• IsMismatch.posX - indicator variable indicating whether this position X is mismatch or not, (1 means yes and 0 means not). X takes on values from 1 to gRNA.size, representing all positions in the guide RNA (gRNA).

• strand - strand of the match, + for plus and - for minus strand

• chrom - chromosome of the off target

• chromStart - start position of the off target

• chromEnd - end position of the off target

• name - gRNA name

• gRNAPlusPAM - gRNA sequence with PAM sequence concatenated

• OffTargetSequence - the genomic sequence of the off target

• n.mismatch - number of mismatches between the off target and the gRNA

• forViewInUCSC - string for viewing in UCSC genome browser, e.g., chr14:31665685-31665707

• score - set to 100, and will be updated in getOfftargetScore

Author(s)

Lihua Julie Zhu

See Also

offTargetAnalysis

Examples

 all.gRNAs <- findgRNAs(inputFilePath =
       system.file("extdata", "inputseq.fa", package = "CRISPRseek"),
       pairOutputFile = "pairedgRNAs.xls",
       findPairedgRNAOnly = TRUE)
  hits <- searchHits(all.gRNAs[1], 
      seqs = DNAString(
           "TAATATTTTAAAATCGGTGACGTGGGCCCAAAACGAGTGCAGTTCCAAAGGCACCCACCTGTGGCAG"), 
      seqname = "myseq", max.mismatch = 10, outfile = "test_searchHits")
  colnames(hits)
  all.gRNAs <- findgRNAs(inputFilePath =
          DNAStringSet(
              "TAATATTTTAAAATCGGTGACGTGGGCCCAAAACGAGTGCAGTTCCAAAGGCACCCACCTGTGGCAG"),
          pairOutputFile = "pairedgRNAs.xls",
          findPairedgRNAOnly = FALSE,
          PAM = "TTTN", PAM.location = "5prime")
   hits <- searchHits(all.gRNAs[1], seqs = DNAString(
       "TAATATTTTAAAATCGGTGACGTGGGCCCAAAACGAGTGCAGTTCCAAAGGCACCCACCTGTGGCAG"), 
       seqname = "myseq", 
       max.mismatch = 0, 
       outfile = "test_searchHits", PAM.location = "5prime",
       PAM.pattern = "^T[A|T]NN", allowed.mismatch.PAM = 0, PAM = "TTTN")
   colnames(hits)

LihuaJulieZhu/CRISPRseek documentation built on Feb. 3, 2024, 2:44 p.m.