A collaboration led by UCSF and involving scientists at Mt. Sinai, Pacific Biosciences, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Ambit Biosciences demonstrates the therapeutic validity of targeting the tyrosine kinase FLT3, bringing potential for new treatments.
Several new high-quality human genome assemblies produce ethnicity-specific reference sequences and show how scientists can use this genetic information to improve precision medicine studies in Asian sub- populations. These projects demonstrate how long- read SMRT Sequencing provides robust detection of polymorphic structural variants in clinically relevant gene coding regions and phases variants into haplotypes.
Scientists in Brazil paired PacBio long-read sequencing with Dovetail Genomics chromatin proximity ligation to generate a highly contiguous genome assembly for the cashew tree. With this resource, they are on their way to improving breeding programs to protect the plant from disease and boost yield.
At the University of California, Davis, Dario Cantu is applying long-read PacBio sequencing to the heterozygous genome of the Cabernet Sauvignon grape. Now, his team has access to whole genome data that could help guard against the effects of climate change and disease.
With PacBio long-read sequencing, scientists are making exciting new discoveries about the microbes that live around and within us. From viruses to bacteria to fungi, SMRT Sequencing is shedding light on how these organisms function and evolve.
At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, scientists used SMRT Sequencing to decode one of the most challenging cancer genomes ever encountered. Along the way, they built a portfolio of open-access analysis tools that will help researchers everywhere make structural variation discoveries with long-read sequencing data.
Scientists at the USDA and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory know that better breeding of maize to feed a growing population will depend on an accurate reference assembly. They tackled the previously intractable crop with a combination of PacBio Sequencing and BioNano Genomics® genome maps, leading to the first-ever high-quality reference assembly.
Scientists are utilizing long-read PacBio sequencing to provide uniquely comprehensive views of complex plant and animal genomes. These efforts are uncovering novel biological mechanisms, enabling progress in crop development, and much more. To date, scientists have published over 1000 papers with Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing, many covering breakthroughs in the plant and animal sciences. In this case study, we look at examples in model organisms Drosophila and C. elegans and non-model organisms coffee, Oropeitum, danshen, and sugarbeet, where SMRT Sequencing has contributed to a more accurate understanding of biology. These efforts underscore the broad applicability of long-read sequencing in…
Scientists from WashU, Macrogen, and Mount Sinai are using long-read sequencing with single-molecule, next-generation genome mapping to create gold-quality de novo assemblies of human genomes. Unbiased de novo assembled genomes also highlight the substantial amount of structural variation unique to individuals and populations, which cannot be accessed by short-read technologies that use a reference-based re-sequencing approach.
From crop improvement to breeding healthier livestock to modeling human disease, scientists are using PacBio Sequencing to advance understanding of plant and animal genomes. In this article, we look at four examples of plant and animal genome references improved or made possible with SMRT Sequencing, including an early example of transcriptome sequencing of a chicken for improved annotation. These examples highlight insights gained with SMRT Sequencing that are missed with short-read data, such as complex regions or novel genes.
Extraordinarily long sequencing reads and recent throughput advances are allowing scientists to affordably assemble and close larger genomes, including many plants and animals — even resolving complex repeats or extreme GC regions.
PacBio long reads are changing the game in genome finishing. A new error correction pipeline developed by veterans in genome assembly allows scientists to add long-read data to their short reads and finally finish all those incomplete genomes.
Scientists at the Korea Polar Research Institute used the PacBio RS for the successful de novo assembly of a GC-rich bacterial genome that couldn’t be pulled together with short-read technology.
At KeyGene, agricultural specialists strive to improve plant varieties through molecular breeding and other advances. They rely on SMRT Sequencing to produce top-notch assemblies from even the most difficult genomes.
Scientists at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) applied long PacBio reads to a genome that was proving particularly difficult to assemble. Today, sequencing problems associated with the Atlantic cod genome are a thing of the past — and researchers are using their new assembly as the foundation for a major resequencing effort that’s just getting started.