Get A Quote Cellecta is pioneering the development of complex pooled RNAi libraries for genetic screening, and we continue to offer both off-shelf and custom shRNA libraries for functional gene screening. Custom shRNA libraries for any set of genes in 6 weeks RNA-specific barcodes obviate the need to PCR and sequence difficult hairpin structures Libraries can be provided in plasmid and pre-packaged ready-to-transduce formats Multiple vector formats in both constitutive and inducible formats Let us know what genes you want to target and Cellecta can provide you with a custom shRNA (or sgRNA) library in a matter of weeks. Pooled lentiviral-based libraries containing heterogeneous mixtures of shRNA allow you to assay the effects of many thousands of pooled constructs in one experiment. By taking advantage of array-based oligonucleotide synthesis, we can readily make precisely defined, large custom-pooled libraries expressing many thousands of shRNAs. In approximately 2 months, we can produce a completely new, high-quality custom library focusing on any target set of genes. The library vector can also be easily customized, and the same library oligonucleotides can be cloned into more than one vector backbone (e.g. with an inducible and constitutive shRNA). It is a very flexible platform. Screening readout of enrichment or depletion representation of particular shRNAs is greatly facilitated by the incorporation of easily sequenced barcodes in each shRNA construct. Direct amplification and sequencing of hairpins is problematic and increases variability in the data since small sequence variations of the hairpin stem significantly affect the efficiency of PCR. We can design libraries to target each transcript with as many shRNAs as desired. Given that shRNA can often have off-target effects due to its similarity with miRNA regulator sequences, we usually design shRNA libraries with 10 or more hairpins for each specific transcript. More than two thirds of our optimized shRNAs knock down transcript levels by greater than 70%. For an overview of Cellecta's functional genomics offerings, see CRISPR & RNAi Functional Genomics Capabilities
