The bacteria living on and within us can impact health, disease, and even our behavior, but there is still much to learn about the breadth of their effects. The torrent of new discoveries unleashed by high-throughput sequencing has captured the imagination of scientists and the public alike. Scientists at Second Genome are hoping to apply these insights to improve human health, leveraging their bioinformatics expertise to mine bacterial communities for potential therapeutics. Recently they teamed up with scientists at PacBio to explore how long-read sequencing might supplement their short-read-based pipeline for gene discovery, using an environmental sample as a test…
Many scientists are using PacBio Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing to explore the genomes and transcriptomes of a wide variety of marine species and ecosystems. These studies are already adding to our understanding of how marine species adapt and evolve, contributing to conservation efforts, and informing how we can optimize food production through efficient aquaculture.
Highly accurate long reads – HiFi reads – with single-molecule resolution make Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing ideal for full-length 16S rRNA sequencing, shotgun metagenomic profiling, and metagenome assembly.
With this PacBio Application Consumable Bundles Purchasing Guide, you can easily order the required consumables for the Sequel II System. Simply choose your SMRT Sequencing Application and with the single part number place your order to get started.
The Sequel II and IIe Systems are powered by Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing, a technology proven to produce highly accurate long reads, known as HiFi reads, for sequencing data you and your customers can trust.
In this ASHG 2020 PacBio Workshop Hagen Tilgner of Cornell University shares how he has used single-cell RNA sequencing using long reads to identify novel isoform expression in brain tissues.
Ulf Gyllensten from Uppsala University used SMRT Sequencing to study multi-drug-resistant bacteria. Time to results was faster than other NGS platforms and generally resulted in complete genome assemblies, even for an organism with a 70% AT-rich genome. He also applied SMRT Sequencing for the characterization of HPV subtypes, important in cervical cancer.
Lizzie Wilbanks formerly from UC Davis, discusses how longs read from SMRT Sequencing allow accurate assembly of members from the complex pink berry salt marsh community.
Dr. Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Uppsala Genome Center (Uppsala University), presents best practices for qualifying genomic DNA from a variety of sources to be suitable for Single Molecule, Real-Time Sequencing. Factors that affect single molecule sequencing and recommendations for extracting high-quality genomic DNA will be described. (requires file download to view)
PacBio scientist Cheryl Heiner describes new low-input protocols for SMRT Sequencing library construction. With these revised methods, 2 kb libraries can be generated from as little as 10 ng of DNA, while 10 kb libraries require only 100 ng of sample.
In this poster presentation, PacBio scientist Richard Hall describes a collaboration with the University of Minnesota to use long-read metagenomic profiling with SMRT Sequencing to analyze the gut microbiome of a patient who had undergone a fecal transplant after chronic C. difficile infection.
Yoshihiko Suzuki, Graduate Student from University of Tokyo presents his poster (in Japanese) on characterizing a methylome of the human gut microbiome using SMRT Sequencing and metagenomic assembly
Melissa Laird Smith discussed how the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai uses long-read sequencing for translational research. She gave several examples of targeted sequencing projects run on the Sequel System including CYP2D6, phased mutations of GLA in Fabry’s disease, structural variation breakpoint validation in glioblastoma, and full-length immune profiling of TCR sequences.
This tutorial provides an overview of the Circular Consensus Sequence (CCS) analysis application. The CCS algorithm is used in applications that require distinguishing closely related DNA molecules in the same sample. Applications of CCS include profiling microbial communities, resolving viral populations and accurately identifying somatic variations within heterogeneous tumor cells. This tutorial covers features of SMRT Link v5.0.0.