This blog features voices from PacBio — and our partners and colleagues — discussing the latest research, publications, and updates about HiFi sequencing.
The new kid on the PacBio block — The Sequel IIe System — has been receiving high marks from universities and sequencing centers around the world. What’s it like using…
Rice was the first crop genome ever completed almost two decades ago. However, the rice reference has never been truly complete. Even improved versions of the major food staple and…
Updated on March 2, 2023 Rare diseases are defined as diseases that affect a small number of people — fewer than 1 in 2,000 in the European Union and…
An exciting new paper from scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the NIH Clinical Center reports on the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus within individuals….
It’s a moment three decades in the making: the first complete human genome assembly is here! Reading this you will no doubt feel some sense of déjà vu. After all,…
May is ALS Awareness Month, and we’re hoping to help raise awareness by shining a spotlight on two deserving publications from scientists at the University of Washington and at the…
If you are like most of us at PacBio, you likely learned how to extract DNA in a high school or college biology class, or maybe even in your…
If only we could track COVID-19 like we track the weather, with satellites and weather stations placed around the globe monitoring and sounding the alarm about potential storms, floods, droughts…
Today we’re pleased to announce the launch of a new HiFi Sequencing workflow along with a software update for the Sequel II and Sequel IIe Systems that will increase the number of…
By Jonas Korlach, Chief Scientific Officer Grapy dusks over tangerine fields. Potato-patch fog over beds of coral. Mountains, glaciers, forests, deserts, fertile farmland and seas with both Arctic…
When size matters and you need to be able to detect both single nucleotide changes as well as large repeated sequences, SMRT Sequencing on the Sequel II System is the…
Vaccine safety is of the utmost importance. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common cause of severe lower respiratory tract illness in infants and young children. Much like the…
Today we’re pleased to announce the three winners of our latest SMRT Grant which called for teams of researchers and collaborative projects that could be addressed using the power of…
It’s been a year since we took a little field trip to Stanford to collect samples from the giant California redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) with the goal of assembling its ginormous…
As new strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus emerge—including variants that appear to make the virus more contagious or potentially more likely to effect the efficacy of the new vaccines—it’s clear…
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