February 5, 2021
Podcast: Why the diversity of genomic data matters
The lack of diversity in genomic data has been an issue of growing concern. It threatens to limit the benefits from the massive investment that has been made to date…
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February 5, 2021
Webinar: Size Matters: Accurate detection and phasing of structural variations
In this presentation Fritz Sedlazeck describes his latest work to obtain comprehensive genomes leveraging long-read sequencing and linked reads.
February 5, 2021
Webinar: A new paradigm in DNA sequencing – Highly accurate single-molecule long reads
In this webinar, Jonas Korlach, PacBio Chief Scientific Officer, and Dave Corney, Associate Principal Scientist, Next Generation Sequencing from GENEWIZ, describe the recent release of Sequel System 6.0, which has…
February 5, 2021
Tutorial: Structural variant calling [SMRT Link v6.0.0]
This tutorial provides an overview of the Structural Variant Calling application in SMRT Link and a live demo of how to launch an analysis in SMRT Link and interpret the…
February 5, 2021
PAG Conference: Dawn of the crop pangenome era
To make improvements to crops like corn, soybeans, and canola, scientists at Corteva are building a compendium of crop genomics resources to provide actionable sequence info for genetic discovery, gene-editing,…
February 5, 2021
PAG Conference: The Bat1K project: bat genome, biology and implications
In this presentation, Sonja Vernes of the Max Plank Institute shares her work with the Bat1K project which aims to catalog the genetic diversity of all living bat species. She…
February 5, 2021
PAG Conference: How SMRT Sequencing is accelerating plant and animal genomics
In this presentation, Justin Blethrow provides an overview of recent and upcoming developments across PacBio’s SMRT Sequencing product portfolio, and their implications for PacBio’s major applications. In presenting the product…
February 5, 2021
PAG Conference: Reference-quality drosophila genome assemblies for evolutionary analysis of previously inaccessible genomic regions
In this presentation, Andrew Clark from Cornell University describes work from a collaboration with Manyuan Long of the University of Chicago and Rod Wing of the University of Arizona to…
February 5, 2021
Webinar: Complete genomes within reach – Closing bacterial genomes from the lakes of Minnesota to NYC hospitals
In this webinar, Ben Auch, Research Scientist, Innovation Lab, University of Minnesota Genomics Center, Cody Sheik, Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Minnesota Duluth, and Harm van Bakel, Assistant Professor…
February 5, 2021
Webinar: Sequence with Confidence – Introducing the Sequel II System
In this webinar, Jonas Korlach, Chief Scientific Officer, PacBio provides an overview of the features and the advantages of the new Sequel II System. Kiran Garimella, Senior Computational Scientist, Broad…
February 5, 2021
Webinar: Long-read sequencing and infectious disease: New insights into longstanding challenges
One of the longstanding challenges in infectious disease has been the lack of high-quality reference genomes. However, developments in genome sequencing are helping researchers overcome this barrier. Recently, highly contiguous…
February 5, 2021
Webinar: Smoking out structural variants in the cannabis genome
In this webinar, Sarah Kingan, Staff Scientist, PacBio, and Kevin McKernan, Founder and Chief Science Officer, Medicinal Genomics, describe their work assembling the most comprehensive and complete cannabis genome of…
February 5, 2021
Webinar: Variant calling and de novo genome assembly with PacBio HiFi reads
In this webinar, Sarah Kingan, Staff Scientist, PacBio, presents recent work on de novo genome assembly using PacBio HiFi reads. She highlights the benefits of HiFi data for base level…
February 5, 2021
User Group Meeting: Lowering input requirements
To start Day 2 of the PacBio User Group Meeting, Jonas Korlach, PacBio CSO, provides an update on lowering DNA input amounts for SMRT Sequencing workflows. Updates include a more…
February 5, 2021
User Group Meeting: Unbiased characterization of metagenome composition and function using HiFi sequencing on the PacBio Sequel II System
In this PacBio User Group Meeting presentation, PacBio scientist Meredith Ashby shared several examples of analysis — from full-length 16S sequencing to shotgun sequencing — showing how SMRT Sequencing enables…