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FED: a web tool for foreign element detection of genome-edited organism

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Acknowledgements

We thank Caixia Gao and Huawei Zhang for providing the Arabidopsis materials. This work was supported by the National Transgenic Science and Technology Program (2019ZX08010-003), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFD0102002), the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31901523).

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Supplemental Table 1

The presently available reference genomes used in FED

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Integration-sites results of simulation data

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Integration-sites results of genome-edited rice

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The primer of Sanger sequencing

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Liu, Q., Jiao, X., Meng, X. et al. FED: a web tool for foreign element detection of genome-edited organism. Sci. China Life Sci. 64, 167–170 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1731-9

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