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ArticleViruses2018

CRISPRStudio: A User-Friendly Software for Rapid CRISPR Array Visualization.

Moïra B Dion, Simon J Labrie, Shiraz A Shah, Sylvain Moineau

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Article in Viruses, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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25 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Moïra B DionDépartement de Biochimie, de Microbiologie, et de Bio-informatique, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec City, QC G1V 0A6, Canada. moira.dion.1@ulaval.ca.
Simon J LabrieSyntBioLab Inc., 4820 rue de la Pascaline, Lévis, QC G6W 0L9, Canada. simon.labrie@syntbiolab.com.
Shiraz A ShahCOPSAC, Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Ledreborg Alle 34, 2820 Gentofte, Denmark. shiraz.shah@dbac.dk.
Sylvain MoineauDépartement de Biochimie, de Microbiologie, et de Bio-informatique, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec City, QC G1V 0A6, Canada. sylvain.moineau@bcm.ulaval.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-2832-5101

Funding

CIHR 143924
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The CRISPR-Cas system biologically serves as an adaptive defense mechanism against phages. However, there is growing interest in exploiting the hypervariable nature of the CRISPR locus, often of viral origin, for microbial typing and tracking. Moreover, the spacer content of any given strain provides a phage resistance profile. Large-scale CRISPR typing studies require an efficient method for showcasing CRISPR array similarities across multiple isolates. Historically, CRISPR arrays found in microbes have been represented by colored shapes based on nucleotide sequence identity and, while this approach is now routinely used, only scarce computational resources are available to automate the process, making it very time-consuming for large datasets. To alleviate this tedious task, we introduce CRISPRStudio, a command-line tool developed to accelerate CRISPR analysis and standardize the preparation of CRISPR array figures. It first compares nucleotide spacer sequences present in a dataset and then clusters them based on sequence similarity to assign a meaningful representative color. CRISPRStudio offers versatility to suit different biological contexts by including options such as automatic sorting of CRISPR loci and highlighting of shared spacers, while remaining fast and user-friendly.

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsSoftwareBase SequenceComputational BiologyDatabases, Nucleic AcidData MiningGene EditingSequence Analysis, DNAUser-Computer InterfaceCRISPRphagesoftwaretypingviral originvisualization

Identifiers

PMID30388811
PMCPMC6267562

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