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March 23, 2017
Metal-Devouring Plant Genomes Get SMRT Treatment with Sequel System: 2016 SMRT Grant Program Winner Results
Blog readers may recall that last year’s SMRT Grant winner was Renying Zhuo from the Chinese Academy of Forestry. We’re pleased to report that the project is now complete! Zhuo…
March 21, 2017
New Goat Genome Assembly Breaks Continuity Record, Expands Breeding Tools
Efforts to produce a reference-grade goat genome assembly for improved breeding programs have paid off. A new Nature Genetics publication reports a high-quality, highly contiguous assembly that can be used…
March 16, 2017
Vote for the World’s Most Interesting Genome! Snakes, Slugs, Pigeons, Beetles & Dingoes Compete for SMRT Sequencing Treatment
Our team of scientist reviewers has considered hundreds of submissions for the latest SMRT Grant award and narrowed the selection to five finalists. Now it’s your turn! We welcome the…
March 7, 2017
High-Quality, Chromosome-Scale Quinoa Genome Valuable for Breeding Better Crops
A new genome assembly has remarkable promise to boost the global food supply. Scientists from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and other institutions sequenced quinoa, a nutritious grain…
March 3, 2017
‘Mobilome’ Study of Antibiotic Resistance Implicates Transposon Activity
A recent effort to understand the genetic mechanisms behind swappable elements of drug-resistance among bacteria built on previous studies of Enterobacteriaceae isolates collected at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center….
March 1, 2017
Scientists explore extremophile genome with SMRT sequencing
A recent Nature publication from a large team of scientists in Europe, Canada, and the US reports the use of SMRT Sequencing to elucidate the genome of Fragilariopsis cylindrus, a…
February 16, 2017
AGBT 2017, Day 2: Diploid Genomes, Deep Learning, and the PacBio Workshop
The second day of AGBT featured a number of great talks and posters, and also our user workshop called “Covering All the Bases with SMRT Sequencing.” We’d like to thank…
February 15, 2017
AGBT 2017, Day 1: Infectious Disease and Improved Genome Assemblies
We’re thrilled to be at the AGBT conference this week, taking place this year in Hollywood, Fla. On the first full day of the meeting, everyone’s mandatory wristbands look shiny…
February 12, 2017
Staying on Top of Long-Read Sequencing at AGBT 2017
We’re heading cross-country to the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) Meeting starting Monday in sunny Hollywood, Florida. There will be several great opportunities to learn about how scientists…
February 8, 2017
PAG Workshop: Wide Breadth of Research Benefiting from SMRT Sequencing
If you didn’t get to the Plant and Animal Genome meeting this year, you missed a great workshop featuring SMRT Sequencing users and the fascinating projects they’re working on across…
February 2, 2017
Toward a Gold Standard for Human Structural Variation
Scientists from the University of Washington and McDonnell Genome Institute recently reported in Genome Research the results of an in-depth assessment of structural variation in the human genome using SMRT…
February 1, 2017
Scientists Produce Reference Genome for Plasmodium, Update Phylogeny
A new Nature paper from scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and other institutions delves into two Plasmodium genomes and reveals novel information about how these parasites have evolved. SMRT…
January 18, 2017
At the PacBio ASHG Workshop, Scientists Present Sequel System Data for Precision Medicine, Structural Variation, and More
We were delighted to have so many ASHG attendees join our workshop, titled “Discovering and Targeting Causative Variation Underlying Human Genetic Disease Using SMRT Sequencing.” If you missed it,…
January 13, 2017
At PAG, Workshops on Complete Genomes and SMRT Informatics
Looks like the sun will be shining on the annual Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) conference next week (despite the recent stormy weather in CA). We’re excited to be a…
January 9, 2017
New Chemistry and Software for Sequel System Improve Read Length, Lower Project Costs
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new version of our chemistry, SMRT Cells, and software for the Sequel System. The V4 software, V2 chemistry, and SMRT Cells…