This blog features voices from PacBio — and our partners and colleagues — discussing the latest research, publications, and updates about HiFi sequencing.
It took nearly 20 years until the technology was right, and five years of hard graft by more than 100 scientists from 16 institutions, but the result was worth it,…
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) may be powerful tools for the identification of genes underlying complex traits, but what if you have an incredibly complex, uncharacterized genome, with no sequenced progenitor…
The first reference genome for maize variety B73, completed in 2009, was a major milestone, and an improved version released by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists in 2017 provided a…
Revered around the world, rice is a staple food for nearly half of the population. But as that population grows, rice breeders are faced with the challenge of producing crops…
A publication from the Molecular Plant journal demonstrates the use of SMRT Sequencing to characterize activity of transposable elements in Magnaporthe oryzae, the destructive fungus responsible for rice blast disease….
UPDATE: The study has been published in the journal G3: GENES, GENOMES, GENETICS and featured on its cover. ORIGINAL POST (March 12, 2018): A new preprint from scientists at the…
Maize is amazingly diverse. A study comparing genome segments from two inbred lines, for instance, revealed that half of the sequence and one-third of the gene content was not shared…
Following on the heels of the first nearly complete assembly of the hexaploid bread wheat genome, scientists from the University of California, Davis, the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Johns Hopkins…
In a new paper published in the journal Gene, scientists from Rutgers University and King’s College London report the use of a single SMRT® Cell to sequence and assemble more…
A new study of maize sheds light on the importance of copy-number variation in genes related to stress tolerance with implications to boost crop yield in suboptimal soil environments. A…
The third day of sessions has wrapped up at AGBT, and we’ve got one day left to go. It’s the last leg of the marathon! We’ve been having a great…
We survived the second day of AGBT, and the conference is officially in full swing. After an intense day of sessions focused on clinical genomics, the evening took us back…
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