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==Designing the Targeting Strategy==
* Determine where you want to target the gene and copy that DNA sequence. It needs to be the genomic DNA from that particular species that is targeted, so if your region of interest spans several introns, you need to copy the genomic DNA not the mRNA sequence. In other words, if you can design your CRISPR pairs to be within one exon that is best. In that case submit the exon to the CRISPR tool. If your target site is close to an exon boundary then you need to submit the genomic sequence around that exon. You do not want your CRISPR pairs to span an intron.
* Paste this sequence into the CRISPR tool at http://crispr.mit.edu/ and select your target species. When complete select Double Nickase Design
* Based on where you want to cut the DNA select the two guide DNA sequences.
