1 Installation and getting started

The crisprVerse is a collection of packages for CRISPR guide RNA (gRNA) design that can easily be installed with the crisprVerse package. This provides a convenient way of downloading and installing all crisprVerse packages with a single R command.

The package can be installed from the Bioconductor devel branch using the following commands in an R session:

if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install(version="devel")
BiocManager::install("crisprVerse")

The core crisprVerse includes the packages that are commonly used for gRNA design, and are attached when you attach the crisprVerse package:

library(crisprVerse)

You can check that all crisprVerse packages are up-to-date with the function crisprVerse_update().

2 Components

The following packages are installed and loaded with the crisprVerse package:

3 Reproducibility

sessionInfo()
## R version 4.5.0 beta (2025-04-02 r88102)
## Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
## Running under: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
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## Matrix products: default
## BLAS:   /home/biocbuild/bbs-3.22-bioc/R/lib/libRblas.so 
## LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.12.0  LAPACK version 3.12.0
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## time zone: America/New_York
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## attached base packages:
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