This blog features voices from PacBio — and our partners and colleagues — discussing the latest research, publications, and updates about SMRT sequencing.
The combined accuracy and length of PacBio HiFi reads is utilized by an ever-increasing number of researchers, with numerous new publications and preprints appearing every week. Several months ago,…
When you’re dealing with insects, fungi and microbes with short life cycles and rapid reproduction, you often encounter highly variable genetics within single populations. The complexities of genetics within…
Most higher organisms are diploid, meaning that each cell carries in its nucleus two copies of the individual’s genome, one from its mother and one from its father. Accurately…
As we celebrate the 52nd anniversary of Earth Day, PacBio reflects on how the power of genomics can be harnessed in the spirit of this year’s theme: “invest in our…
Written by: Menzies Chen, Associate Director, Product Management, Informatics Whether it is accessing areas of the human genome that short reads can’t sequence, or powering genome assemblies across all…
Advancements in genome engineering and other programmable molecular techniques are showing great promise in agriculture, with the potential to address food security and industrial sustainability. To be able to…
Whether it’s enhancing marker development, facilitating the production of more nutritious food, protecting livestock health, or increasing crop yield, the biological insights gained from comprehensive HiFi sequencing are immeasurable…
The scientific community is still abuzz from last week’s announcement of the amazing achievement of the first complete sequence of a human genome by the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium. Assembling…
What would be possible if every human genetics researcher had a complete reference genome? Today, researchers use a good – but incomplete – reference genome released in 2013. As…
Through the development of long-read, full-length RNA sequencing methods, the scientific community has recognized a fundamental paradigm shift, “from ‘gene-centric’ to ‘isoform-centric’ understanding of human transcriptomes, owing to the…
How sequencing provides actionable insights in agriculture, conservation and ecology. What does genomics in action look like? At PAGBio Day 2022, we heard from scientists using high-quality genomic data…
Long-read PacBio HiFi sequencing has made transformative contributions to many areas of genomics over the past few years, including de novo assembly, calling of all variant types, full-length phased…
Microbial and metagenomics enthusiasts rejoice: newly optimized bioinformatics pipelines are enabling scientists to detect even more species and assemble more single contig metagenomes using HiFi sequencing than ever before…
Today marks an exciting change for PacBio. We’ve updated our logo, and our website looks a bit brighter. But this is more than just a new look. It represents…
Over one million Canadians are impacted by rare genetic diseases, and over a third of these remain unsolved. For some families, this has led to decades-long diagnostic odysseys to find…
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