PacBio HiFi sequencing has been used to generate the latest and most complete version of the human genome, characterize population-level structural variations, diplotype pharmacogenetic loci, and elucidate complex alternative splicing at the single-cell level. The two main characteristics of HiFi data – long read length and high accuracy – are critical for applications that either require near-perfect consensus sequencing or long-range phasing information. However, existing computational tools that were designed for short-reads often failed to either utilize the long-range information or employed heuristics that did not apply to HiFi data. Thus, a new generation of alignment, assembly, splicing, and annotation tools had to be…
We created the HiFiViral SARS-CoV-2 Kit for labs working on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic — tracking and identifying the spread of novel variants in their communities. The kit is an easy-to-use, scalable, and highly accurate solution for sequencing the entire SARS-CoV-2 genome. The differentiated design approach is resilient to novel variants enabling comprehensive detection of all types of mutations.
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Many neurological diseases result from expansion of unstable variable nucleotide tandem repeats (VNTRs) that influence gene transcription of neighboring genes. In this talk, Dr. Henne Holstege presents research that investigated VNTRs across several genomes including a 115-year-old cognitively healthy individual. She and her group found that the genes that contained most VNTRs, of which PTPRN2 and DLGAP2 are the most prominent examples, were found to be predominantly expressed in the brain and associated with a wide variety of neurological disorders.
PacBio Vice President of Segment Marketing, Dr. Jennifer Stone, demonstrates how HiFi sequencing is changing the game in human genetics by sharing some of the exciting milestones and seminal publications our technology has produced this year.
Genomic variation beyond single nucleotide variants, including structural variation (SV), copy number variants (CNV), and repeat expansions, plays a significant role in rare disease. However, current technologies require multiple tests to fully access these variants, resulting in complex testing algorithms and the potential for missed diagnoses. Long-read genome sequencing offers the ability to accurately detect SNV, CNV, SV, and expansions with a single test. This presentation will highlight the integrated analyses offered by HiFi sequencing, using case examples demonstrating the potential for a unified test.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a major global epidemiological challenge with the ongoing emergence of new strain lineages that are more contagious, more virulent, drug resistant and in some cases evade vaccine-induced immunity. In response, the HiFiViral SARS-CoV-2 kit (PacBio; Menlo Park, California) was developed as a scalable solution for the Sequel II and Sequel IIe systems. The HiFiViral SARS-CoV-2 is an easy to perform solution for surveillance of variants to support pandemic response by public health. With 80% of samples yielding complete genome coverage in a 96-plex run, the combination of long read lengths and a differentiated probe design…