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ArticleBiology methods & protocols2025

Leveraging uncertainty quantification to optimize CRISPR guide RNA selection.

Carl Schmitz, Jacob Bradford, Robert Salomone, Dimitri Perrin

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Article in Biology methods & protocols, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Machine Learning for CRISPR-Based Diagnostics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 authors.

Carl SchmitzSchool of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia.
Jacob BradfordSchool of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia.
Robert SalomoneSchool of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia.
Dimitri PerrinSchool of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4007-5256

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CRISPR-based genome editing relies on guide RNA sequences to target specific regions of interest. A large number of methods have been developed to predict how efficient different guides are at inducing indels. As more experimental data becomes available, methods based on machine learning have become more prominent. Here, we explore whether quantifying the uncertainty around these predictions can be used to design better guide selection strategies. We demonstrate how using a deep ensemble approach achieves better performance than utilizing a single model. This approach can also provide uncertainty quantification. This allows to design, for the first time, strategies that consider uncertainty in guide RNA selection. These strategies achieve precision over 90% and can identify suitable guides for >93% of genes in the mouse genome.

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CRISPR-Cas9guide designmachine learninguncertainty quantification

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PMID41323028
PMCPMC12657131

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