A new article in Drug Discovery & Development from Stuart Scott and Yao Yang at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai offers a compelling look at enhanced analysis…
A new publication from scientists at the University of California, Davis, and the USDA Agricultural Research Service presents important findings about a fungus that threatens global grape production. As part…
We’re pleased to announce the winner of this year’s SMRT Grant, which launched during the American Society for Microbiology annual meeting this summer. The grant program, co-sponsored by PacBio and…
We recently co-sponsored a webinar with Springer Nature, and if you missed it live, you can now register to watch the recording. Moderated by Nature Publishing Group’s Jayshan Carpen, the…
You may remember the firefly genome sequencing project, which was a finalist in our recent SMRT Grant competition and ultimately was crowdfunded through the Experiment site and our Genome Galaxy…
Last month we attended the annual meeting of the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI), where we were impressed to see the great progress in scientific research around transplantation,…
Many scientists who participated in the original Human Genome Project shared a grand vision that individual genomes would one day be part of routine medical care. Genomics veteran Richard Gibbs,…
In a recent Mendelspod interview, host Theral Timpson talked with Valerie Schneider of the National Center for Biotechnology Information about the work of the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC) to bring…
UPDATED September 14, 2018 The expanded G10K project, The Vertebrate Genome Project, released its first batch of 15 high-quality assemblies. ORIGINAL POST October 25, 2016 We’re excited to announce that…
Recent de novo assemblies of individual human genomes have uncovered thousands of structural variants, many of which are accessible only with PacBio long reads [1-3]. Personal Genome PacBio Coverage Deletions…
We’re here in rainy, but beautiful Vancouver for the American Society of Human Genetics. ASHG 2016 promises to be every bit as fascinating as always, with great speakers, excellent sessions, and thought-provoking…
In a Nature Methods paper released today, scientists describe the new bioinformatics tools to produce diploid genome assemblies from SMRT Sequencing reads. FALCON (Fast ALignment and CONsensus for assembly) and…
In a paper published today in Nature, scientists from Seoul National University, Macrogen, and other institutions present the de novo genome assembly for a Korean individual. The effort used SMRT…
More than 150 SMRT Sequencing users gathered at Stanford University for our annual West Coast User Meeting & workshops earlier this month. Many thanks to all the scientists who attended…
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