Sequencing-Free Protospacer-Adjacent Motif Discovery for Uncharacterized CRISPR-Cas9 Orthologs via Active Learning
Bogdan Kirillov, Aleksandra Vasileva, O. Fedorov, Yuliya Kuz'mina, Matvey Kolesnik, Anna B. Trofimova, Alina Demkina, Viktoriia Ronchikova, Mariya Drozhzhina, Marina Abramova, Aleksandra Andreevna Gorkovskaia, Polina V Malysheva, Katherine Vilinski-Mazur, Mikhail A. Khodorkovskii, Maxim Panov, Konstantin Severinov
This paper introduces an active learning method to discover PAMs for uncharacterized CRISPR-Cas9 orthologs without sequencing, reducing data requirements and validating it on known and novel Cas9 variants.
bioRxiv · Oct 21, 2026 · PreprintBioengineering