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. 2018 Feb 21;208(3):853–874. doi: 10.1534/genetics.117.300077

Table 1. Online resources for RNAi screening.

Online resource Application URL Reference
Tools for dsRNA reagent design and evaluation
 E-RNAi Web-based design and evaluation of RNAi reagents http://www.nextrnai.org/ Arziman et al. (2005)
 UP-TORR RNAi reagent reannotation http://www.flyrnai.org/up-torr/ Hu et al. (2013)
 Next-RNAi High-throughput design of RNAi reagent libraries http://www.nextrnai.org/ Horn et al. (2010)
 RSVP Browsing and evaluation of RNAi stock phenotypes https://fgr.hms.harvard.edu/rsvp Perkins et al. (2015)
Tools for RNAi screen analysis
 cellHTS R/Biconductor package for the statistical analysis of cell based RNAi screens http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/cellHTS2.html Boutros et al. (2006)
 webcellHTS Web based version of cellHTS http://web-cellhts2.dkfz.de/cellHTS-java/cellHTS2/ Pelz et al. (2010)
 cytominr R/Biconductor package for the statistical analysis of cell based screens of vaious kinds with strong focus on single-cell data https://github.com/cytomining/cytominer NA
 StratomineR HC Web based integrated analysis tool suite for high content screen analysis https://hcstratominer.umcutrecht.nl/ Omta et al. (2016)
 HTSanalyzeR Network and enrichment analysis for high throughput RNAi screens http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/HTSanalyzeR.html Wang et al. (2011)
 HTSvis Web-based visualization of large scale screening data sets http://htsvis.dkfz.de/ Scheeder et al. (2017)
Tools for analysis of image based screens
 EBImage R/Bioconductor base image analysis and feature extraction https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/EBImage.html Pau et al. (2010)
 imagHTS R/Bioconductor end-to-end pipeline for the analysis of image based high throughput RNAi screens https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/imageHTS.html Pau et al. (2013)
 CellProfiler Python based GUIed image analysis and feature extraction http://cellprofiler.org/ Carpenter et al. (2006)
 CellProfiler Analyst Python based machine learning package for management and analysis of image based screening data http://cellprofiler.org/cp-analyst/ Jones et al. (2008)
Phenotype and gene information databases
 GenomeRNAi Database of RNAi screen phenotypes www.genomernai.org Schmidt et al. (2013)
 FlyBase General purpose database for information on Drosophila alleles and genome function http://flybase.org/ St. Pierre et al. (2014)
 Gene2Function Gene conservation database integrating several sources of ortholog, paralog and interlog data http://www.gene2function.org/ Hu et al. (2017)
 RSVP Browsing and evaluation of RNAi stock phenotypes https://fgr.hms.harvard.edu/rsvp Perkins et al. (2015)
 PubChem BioAssay Repository for reagent activities of drugs and gene perturbation agents https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ Wang et al. (2017)
Drosophila stock collections for in vivo screening
 VDRC Query several genome wide RNAi stock collections http://stockcenter.vdrc.at/control/main NA
 DRSC/TRiP Compendium of online and offline resources www.flyrnai.org Flockhart et al. (2012)
 Bloomington Fly RNAi stock collection http://flystocks.bio.indiana.edu/ Cook et al. (2010)
Tools for sgRNA design and evaluation
 E-CRISP Web-based design of sgRNA reagents http://www.e-crisp.org/E-CRISP/ Heigwer et al. (2014)
 Find CRISPRs Web-based database of sgRNA reagents http://www.flyrnai.org/crispr/ Ren et al. (2013)
 FlyCRISPR Target Finder Web-based design of sgRNA reagents http://tools.flycrispr.molbio.wisc.edu/targetFinder/ Gratz et al. (2014)
 ChopChop Web-based design of sgRNA or TALEN reagents for a few different organisms http://chopchop.cbu.uib.no/index.php Montague et al. (2014)
 CRISPOR Web-based design of sgRNA reagents comparing different scoring algorithms http://crispor.tefor.net/ Haeussler et al. (2016)
 CRISPR Library-Designer High-throughput design of sgRNA libraries https://github.com/boutroslab/cld Heigwer et al. (2016)