CHANGE-seq sequencing data

We recently developed CHANGE-seq (Circularization for High-throughput Analysis of Nuclease Genome-wide Effects by Sequencing), a fast, streamlined, Tn5 tagmentation-based assay for measuring the genome-wide activity of Cas9 in vitro that is easily scalable to many targets and samples. In this study, we directly compare CIRCLE-seq to CHANGE-seq and systematically evaluate Cas9 genome-wide activity on 110 targets across 13 therapeutically-relevant loci leveraging CHANGE-seq. We validate the sensitivity of CHANGE-seq for identifying sites of bona fide cellular off-target mutations using GUIDE-seq and sensitive targeted tag sequencing. Additionally, we sought to evaluate the impact of chromatin accessibility on cellular off-target activity by comparing CHANGE-seq with matched GUIDE-seq cellular off-target, chromatin, and transcriptional profiles generated from the same human primary T-cells.