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ArticleGenome biology2026

Accurate prediction of CRISPR editing outcomes in somatic cell lines and zygotes with few-shot learning with inDecay.

Weizhong Zheng, Lu Yu, Chao Wu, Shaoxian Cao, Mengying Zhao, Guoliang Wang, Kam Ho So, Jun Song, Chen Cheng, Joshua W K Ho and 7 more

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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. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Weizhong Zheng *School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Lu Yu *School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Chao WuGenome Technologies Limited, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Shaoxian CaoInstitute of Animal Science, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Mengying ZhaoSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Guoliang WangSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Kam Ho SoSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Jun SongCollege of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030, China.
Chen ChengSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Joshua W K HoSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Xueqin LiuChongqing Academy of Animal Sciences, Chongqing, China.
Meng WuChongqing Academy of Animal Sciences, Chongqing, China.
Zhonghua LiuCollege of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030, China.
Huili WangInstitute of Animal Science, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China. wanghuili318@163.com.
Pentao LiuSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. pliu88@hku.hk.
Guocheng LanSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. lan01@baizegtl.com.
Yuanhua HuangSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. yuanhua@hku.hk.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prediction of CRISPR/Cas outcomes remains unsatisfactory in embryos due to distinct DNA repair preferences and the lack of large-scale embryo editing profiles. We introduce inDecay, a flexible system for predicting the proportion of CRISPR-induced indels from the target sequence. Owing to its parameter-efficient and cell-type-aware design, inDecay performs well in both in-sample training and out-of-sample fine-tuning. Starting with cross-cell-line predictions, we observed that inDecay maintains high accuracy in mouse zygote editing and in goat, cattle and porcine embryos. inDecay may accelerate mouse model generation, livestock embryonic editing, and gene therapy applications.

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CRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingMachine LearningZygoteAnimalsCattleCell LineINDEL MutationMicePrediction AlgorithmsSwineCRISPR editingDNA repairEditing outcome predictionMachine learning

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PMID42907902
PMCPMC13689239

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