Bio Crispr Screens Copy Number Correction

Corrects the gene-independent copy-number artifact in CRISPR-Cas9 screens (Aguirre 2016 / Munoz 2016 Cancer Discov) where amplified loci appear essential from DNA-damage burden of simultaneous cuts. Covers the gene-independent DNA-damage / G2-arrest mechanism, CRISPRcleanR (Iorio 2018) unsupervised pre-hoc correction, CERES (Meyers 2017) joint CN + gene-effect model, Chronos (Dempster 2021) DepMap-standard population-dynamics + CN model with lowest residual bias, the decision tree by data availability, the Spearman LFC-vs-CN diagnostic, focal-amplification examples (ERBB2 in HER2+, MYC in colorectal, FGFR1 in head and neck), and CRISPRi/a alternatives that bypass the arti…