One of the fastest growing global foods is also one of its most vulnerable. Without an adaptive immune system, the Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, rely on cellular and humoral…
The modern world might benefit from a return to our ancient roots by expanding the cultivation of one of the first domesticated crops, broomcorn millet. Foodies will appreciate that the…
We’re seeing real progress in efforts to better characterize genomic population diversity. That’s particularly good news in light of mounting concerns about the implications of having genomic databases that over-represent…
For the thousands of scientists who attended The Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego this January, the sentiment seemed to be “ask not if PacBio is for you,…
The PacBio team was honored to have the opportunity to give several talks at this year’s Advances in Genome Biology & Technology conference. If you weren’t able to be there,…
You may have missed last week’s Advances in Genome Biology & Technology conference in sunny Marco Island, Fla., but you definitely shouldn’t miss the two posters presented there by Justin…
A new publication in the Journal of Human Genetics describes an impressive effort to identify the pathogenic variant causing progressive myoclonic epilepsy in two siblings. The scientific team used SMRT…
Please join us in congratulating Kristen Sund from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for winning our 2018 Structural Variation SMRT Grant Program! Her proposal to use SMRT Sequencing to pinpoint…
With their large brains, sophisticated sense organs and complex nervous systems, cephalopods could teach us a thing or two about learning, memory, and adaptability. But despite their evolutionary, biological, and…
Getting the word out about your services is a surefire way to get more interest — and ultimately more projects — into your pipeline. The good news is, it doesn’t…
In an effort to produce a comprehensive list of structural variants in the human genome, scientists from the University of Washington, the University of Chicago, Washington University, and Ohio State…
The recent Nature paper describing the first evidence of somatic gene recombination in the human brain has been getting so much attention that we went back to the lab’s PI…
UPDATED August 12, 2019 This paper is now published in Nature Biotechnology. ORIGINAL POST January 15, 2019 We’re excited to report on new SMRT Sequencing advances that will ultimately help…
According to many, PacBio is the new “gold standard” in microbial sequencing. Chief Scientific Officer Jonas Korlach notes that its ability to simultaneously provide long sequencing reads (genome contiguity), high…
Scientists in Japan report using the unique properties of SMRT Sequencing to detect a structural variant (SV) responsible for a hereditary form of epilepsy. The 4.6 kb intronic repeat insertion…
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