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November 2, 2015
Welcome to Silicon Valley, Festival of Genomics!
This week the Festival of Genomics comes to the West Coast, and we’re excited to be a founding sponsor of the Front Line Genomics organization. Not only is it our…
October 22, 2015
Scientists Sequence Klebsiella Strain Resistant to All Known Antibiotics
A new publication reports the discovery and analysis of a nightmare bacterium that’s genetically resistant to all commercially available classes of antibiotics. The paper, “Stepwise evolution of pandrug-resistance in Klebsiella pneumonia,”…
October 21, 2015
Guest Blog: Rich Roberts Urges Scientists to ‘Think Methylation’ in Microbial Sequencing
Richard Roberts, Nobel Laureate and Chief Scientific Officer of New England Biolabs, offers his thoughts on the utility of methylation data for understanding prokaryotes. In his words: “Please run SMRT…
October 20, 2015
Scientists Reveal Recent Autosome-to-Y Duplication Event in Drosophila
Following on the heels of characterizing 18 Mst77Y genes that were tandemly duplicated within a 96 kb region (Krsticevic FJ, et al., 2015), scientists from institutes in Brazil, Austria, and the…
October 15, 2015
ASHG 2015: Highlights from the Platinum Genome Session and More
During the final days of the ASHG meeting last week in Baltimore, a number of scientists offered great presentations based on data generated with SMRT Sequencing, including an entire session…
October 13, 2015
ASHG 2015: Highlights from Icahn Institute, UW, Stanford & CSHL Presentations
During the Wednesday afternoon sessions of last week’s ASHG conference, several speakers provided helpful insights about their use of SMRT Sequencing for a range of applications. Highlights included the following:…
October 9, 2015
ASHG Workshop Recap & Recording: Addressing Hidden Heritability with SMRT Sequencing
The PacBio workshop at ASHG 2015 featured talks from two leaders in human genomics, Rick Wilson of Washington University and Richard Gibbs from Baylor University. Mike Hunkapiller, CEO of Pacific…
October 7, 2015
ASHG 2015 Workshop Live Stream
Watch a recording of our AGBT 2015 workshop, “Addressing Hidden Heritability with Long-Read Single Molecule, Real-time (SMRT) Sequencing”:
October 5, 2015
Beyond the $1,000 Genome: An Interview with Mark Gerstein
Next-generation sequencing has many people excited about the prospect of the $1,000 genome, however recent discoveries show that short-read sequencing technologies miss important genomic elements, driving scientists to look for…
October 2, 2015
Toward Platinum Genomes: PacBio Releases a New, Higher-Quality CHM1 Assembly to NCBI
As part of our effort to support the National Institutes of Health and the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC) in creating platinum genomes for the research community and improving the reference…
October 1, 2015
ASHG 2015: Workshop, Presentations, and First Chance to See the Sequel System
We’re looking forward to the year’s biggest scientific meeting focused on human genetics next week — the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 annual meeting, taking place in Baltimore,…
September 30, 2015
Introducing the Sequel System: The Scalable Platform for SMRT Sequencing
We are excited to announce our newest Single Molecule, Real-Time sequencer, the Sequel™ System. Watch this short video to learn about this exciting evolution in SMRT® Sequencing. The Sequel System…
September 25, 2015
Marc Salit at NIST: Defining Standards for the Human Genome
In the first podcast of a new series on the applications of long-read sequencing, Mendelspod host Theral Timpson interviewed Marc Salit, leader of the Genome Scale Measurements Group at the…
September 24, 2015
At Genome in a Bottle Workshop, Progress on New Reference Materials
Genome in a Bottle consortium The National Institute of Standards and Technology held its latest Genome in a Bottle workshop last month in Gaithersburg, Md., and we were honored to…
September 23, 2015
SMRTest Microbe Grant Winner: Identifying Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms with SMRT Sequencing
We’re pleased to announce the winner of our recent “SMRTest Microbe” grant competition. Congratulations to Dr. Erin Price at the Menzies School of Health Research in Australia! The grant program,…