1 Installation from Bioconductor

crisprScoreData can be installed from the Bioconductor devel branch using the following commands in a fresh R session:

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

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

2 Exploring the different data in crisprScoreData

We first load the crisprScoreData package:

library(crisprScoreData)
## Loading required package: ExperimentHub
## Loading required package: BiocGenerics
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## Attaching package: 'generics'
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## Attaching package: 'BiocGenerics'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
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##     rank, rbind, rownames, sapply, saveRDS, table, tapply, unique,
##     unsplit, which.max, which.min
## Loading required package: AnnotationHub
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This package contains several pre-trained models for different on-target activity prediction algorithms to be used in the package crisprScore.

We can access the file paths of the different pre-trained models directly with named functions:

# For DeepHF model:
DeepWt.hdf5()
## see ?crisprScoreData and browseVignettes('crisprScoreData') for documentation
## downloading 1 resources
## retrieving 1 resource
## loading from cache
##                                                    EH6123 
## "/home/biocbuild/.cache/R/ExperimentHub/77b38aa3cf8_6166"
DeepWt_T7.hdf5()
## see ?crisprScoreData and browseVignettes('crisprScoreData') for documentation
## downloading 1 resources
## retrieving 1 resource
## loading from cache
##                                                      EH6124 
## "/home/biocbuild/.cache/R/ExperimentHub/77b3839a53ad3_6167"
DeepWt_U6.hdf5()
## see ?crisprScoreData and browseVignettes('crisprScoreData') for documentation
## downloading 1 resources
## retrieving 1 resource
## loading from cache
##                                                     EH6125 
## "/home/biocbuild/.cache/R/ExperimentHub/77b388602745_6168"
esp_rnn_model.hdf5()
## see ?crisprScoreData and browseVignettes('crisprScoreData') for documentation
## downloading 1 resources
## retrieving 1 resource
## loading from cache
##                                                      EH6126 
## "/home/biocbuild/.cache/R/ExperimentHub/77b381a850a77_6169"
hf_rnn_model.hdf5()
## see ?crisprScoreData and browseVignettes('crisprScoreData') for documentation
## downloading 1 resources
## retrieving 1 resource
## loading from cache
##                                                      EH6127 
## "/home/biocbuild/.cache/R/ExperimentHub/77b381ac3c433_6170"
# For Lindel model:
Model_weights.pkl()
## see ?crisprScoreData and browseVignettes('crisprScoreData') for documentation
## downloading 1 resources
## retrieving 1 resource
## loading from cache
##                                                      EH6128 
## "/home/biocbuild/.cache/R/ExperimentHub/77b385c2c6031_6171"

Or we can access them using the ExperimentHub interface:

eh <- ExperimentHub()
query(eh, "crisprScoreData")
## ExperimentHub with 9 records
## # snapshotDate(): 2026-04-13
## # $dataprovider: Fudan University, UCSF, University of Washington, New York ...
## # $species: NA
## # $rdataclass: character
## # additional mcols(): taxonomyid, genome, description,
## #   coordinate_1_based, maintainer, rdatadateadded, preparerclass, tags,
## #   rdatapath, sourceurl, sourcetype 
## # retrieve records with, e.g., 'object[["EH6123"]]' 
## 
##            title             
##   EH6123 | DeepWt.hdf5       
##   EH6124 | DeepWt_T7.hdf5    
##   EH6125 | DeepWt_U6.hdf5    
##   EH6126 | esp_rnn_model.hdf5
##   EH6127 | hf_rnn_model.hdf5 
##   EH6128 | Model_weights.pkl 
##   EH7304 | CRISPRa_model.pkl 
##   EH7305 | CRISPRi_model.pkl 
##   EH7356 | RFcombined.rds
eh[["EH6127"]]
## see ?crisprScoreData and browseVignettes('crisprScoreData') for documentation
## loading from cache
##                                                      EH6127 
## "/home/biocbuild/.cache/R/ExperimentHub/77b381ac3c433_6170"

For details on the source of these files, and on their construction see ?crisprScoreData and the scripts:

  • inst/scripts/make-metadata.R
  • inst/scripts/make-data.Rmd
sessionInfo()
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