This specification discloses a method for high
throughput evaluation of the
in vitro cleavage activity of a
CRISPR / Cas
system. The inventors of the present application have implemented the method on the basis of the idea that an
in vitro environment can be simulated by immobilizing cells to inhibit the
life activity thereof, while partially utilizing existing well-established high-
throughput evaluation methods for the activity of an
in vivo environment. In addition, the present specification discloses a model for predicting the cleavage activity of a
CRISPR / Cas
system and a method for applying same. 1) Data on the cleavage activity was collected using various combinations of target-guide vectors, 2) when a target
nucleic acid and a guide
nucleic acid do not match, two or more alignment patterns were derived to augment the data, and 3) the model was invented by developing a method for training a model by using an aligned target
nucleic acid sequence and an aligned guide
nucleic acid sequence as key input variables, and the model was applied in various ways. In addition, the present specification discloses a method for enriching a rare nucleic acid using a
CRISPR / Cas
system when a trace amount of the rare nucleic acid and a large amount of background nucleic acid are included in a sample. The inventors have selected a guide nucleic acid (optimized guide nucleic acid) that facilitates
selective cleavage of a nucleic acid to be cleaved (rare nucleic acid or background nucleic acid) relative to a nucleic acid having a sequence similar thereto (background nucleic acid or rare nucleic acid), and developed a rare nucleic acid enrichment method using same.