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CRISPR

family of DNA sequence found in prokaryotic organisms
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CRISPR

Summary

CRISPR ranks in the top 0.85% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,148 views/month, #665 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • CRISPR is credited with the discovery of Yoshizumi Ishino[2].
  • CRISPR's location of discovery is recorded as University of Osaka[3].
  • CRISPR is a type of DNA sequence[4].
  • CRISPR's Commons category is recorded as CRISPR[5].
  • CRISPR's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1987[6].
  • CRISPR's topic's main category is recorded as Category:CRISPR[7].
  • CRISPR's derivative work is recorded as CRISPR-Cas method[8].
  • CRISPR's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Zika Corpus[9].

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Definition and Type

CRISPR is a type of DNA sequence[4].

Why It Matters

CRISPR ranks in the top 0.85% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,148 views/month, #665 of 77,819).[1] CRISPR has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] CRISPR is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

University of Osaka

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Zika Corpus
    Discoverer or inventor → Yoshizumi Ishino
    Subclass of → DNA sequence
    Subclass of → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987012398869405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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