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. 2020 Aug 18;18:2237–2246. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.08.009

Table 1.

Online tools and databases.

Tool Location Comment
MAGeCK https://sourceforge.net/p/mageck/wiki/Home/ An open source computational tool for CRISPR screen analysis.
CRISPRanalyzeR http://crispr-analyzer.dkfz.de Web based tool for CRISPR screen analysis.
Addgene https://www.addgene.org/crispr/ A non-profit plasmid repository where many CRISPR relevant plasmids, and pooled gRNA libraries can be obtained.
The Human Protein Atlas https://www.proteinatlas.org/humanproteome/proteinclasses Database including protein class categorization (including drug targets), as well as extensive expression information from human cells and tissues.
Gene Ontology (GO) database http://geneontology.org/ Extensive categorization of genes into GO-terms.
Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) https://www.gsea-msigdb.org/gsea/index.jsp Pathway analysis tool for RNAseq data.
g:GOSt of g:Profiler https://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler/gost Pathway analysis tool based on lists of manually input genes.
Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) Gene Ontology Browser http://www.informatics.jax.org/vocab/gene_ontology/ Simple tool to search GO-terms.
g:Converter of g:Profiler https://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler/convert Tool that can be used to convert Gene Ids, and to extract genes from GO-terms, KEGG pathways etc.
Pathway Commons https://www.pathwaycommons.org/ Analyses lists of genes and shows interactions and enriched pathways.
GeneMANIA https://genemania.org/ Analyses lists of genes and shows interactions and enriched pathways (plugin for Cytoscape also exists).
Harmonizome https://amp.pharm.mssm.edu/Harmonizome/ Database that extracts information from multiple other sources and integrates it into a search feature
Geneshot https://amp.pharm.mssm.edu/geneshot/ Literature mining tools providing lists of genes linked to the search term(s).
Green Listed tool http://greenlisted.cmm.ki.se/ Rapid gRNA design tool for custom CRISPR screens. Can also be used to extract non-targeting and intergenic control gRNAs (select Zhang/GeCKOv2 or Wang/Lander/Sabatini and press “Detailed Information”).
Depmap portal https://depmap.org/portal Cancer dependencies analytical and visualization tools, which e.g. can be used to identify essential genes.
g:Orth of g:Profiler https://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler/orth Translates gene identifiers between organisms.
MGI batch query http://www.informatics.jax.org/batch Tool that can identify alternative names of genes.
Drug Gene Interaction http://www.dgidb.org/druggable_gene_categories Database of drug targets.
Probe Miner https://probeminer.icr.ac.uk/#/ Database of small molecule drugs and their targets.