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ArticleGenome biology2026

BEstimate: a computational tool for the design and interpretation of CRISPR base editing experiments.

Cansu Dinçer, Bo Fussing, Mathew J Garnett, Matthew A Coelho

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Article in Genome biology, 2026. 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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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Cansu DinçerSomatic Genomics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Bo FussingCellular Informatics, Informatics and Digital Solutions, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Mathew J GarnettSomatic Genomics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK. mathew.garnett@sanger.ac.uk.
Matthew A CoelhoSomatic Genomics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK. matthew.coelho@sanger.ac.uk.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 206194
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CRISPR base editors enable scalable targeted DNA mutagenesis and are a powerful tool for analysing the function of variants of uncertain significance and disease modelling. Existing guide RNA (gRNA) design tools lack comprehensive functional annotation of target sequences. Here we developed BEstimate, a flexible computational pipeline that systematically specifies base editor gRNA target sites, generates on-target activity and off-target predictions, and provides functional, structural and clinical annotations of installed variants. BEstimate supports custom gRNA design against variant alleles and reversion of disease variants. BEstimate is a freely available, versatile tool for designing gRNA libraries and analysing base editor screens.

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsComputational BiologyCRISPR-Cas SystemsRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsSoftwareHumansRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsBase editingCRISPRguideRNALibrary designScreening

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PMID42045938
PMCPMC13262425

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