CIDP: a multi-functional platform for designing CRISPR sgRNAs

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 32100501) and Shenzhen Science and Technology Program (Grant No. RCBS20210609103819020). J.Z. was funded by the Zhejiang Science and Technology Major Program on Agricultural New Variety Breeding (2021C02070-1).

Author contributions

W.P., J.Z., and X.M. conceived the study and designed the experiments. D.X. and X.Z. developed the CIDP software. Y.H. and H.J. built the testing database. D.X. and W.P. wrote the manuscript. X.M., X.M., and J.Z. revised the manuscript. All authors approved the final version.

Data availability

CIDP written by python 3.8 is a stand-alone software that can be run in Windows, MacOS and Linux systems. The manual and tutorial videos as well as example data can be found in our github account (https://github.com/simon19891216/CIDP), and the CIDP software can be downloaded from https://github.com/simon19891216/CIDP/releases/tag/CIDPv1.2 or https://gitee.com/SimonX19891216/CIDP/releases/tag/CIDP.

Conflict of interest

The authors have declared no competing interests.

Supplementary data

Supplementary data is available at Horticulture Research online.

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