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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Protoc. 2017 Mar 23;12(4):828–863. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2017.016

Flag Description Default

-o Output csv file with names for target genes, spacer sequences, spacer orientations, chromosome locations, cleavage site locations, off-target scores, and oligo library sequences in columns from left to right final_guides.csv
-i Prefix of input genome 2bit file hg19
-g Target genes csv file with the gene name, chromosome, start of the targeted region, and end of the targeted region in columns from left to right genes.csv
-gc Minimum GC content required for an sgRNA spacer sequence 25
-s Minimum spacing required between cleavage sites of sgRNAs targeting the same genomic region 20
-n Maximum number of guides selected targeting each gene in the target genes csv file 3
-db Use an existing off-target database constructed from a previous custom library design for a new library False
-gecko or -sam Specify the type of library and add the respective flanking sequences to the spacers for the oligo library synthesis Neither