This blog features voices from PacBio — and our partners and colleagues — discussing the latest research, publications, and updates about HiFi sequencing.
In a recent Mendelspod interview, host Theral Timpson talked with Valerie Schneider of the National Center for Biotechnology Information about the work of the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC) to bring…
UPDATED September 14, 2018 The expanded G10K project, The Vertebrate Genome Project, released its first batch of 15 high-quality assemblies. ORIGINAL POST October 25, 2016 We’re excited to announce that…
Recent de novo assemblies of individual human genomes have uncovered thousands of structural variants, many of which are accessible only with PacBio long reads [1-3]. Personal Genome PacBio Coverage Deletions…
We’re here in rainy, but beautiful Vancouver for the American Society of Human Genetics. ASHG 2016 promises to be every bit as fascinating as always, with great speakers, excellent sessions, and thought-provoking…
In a Nature Methods paper released today, scientists describe the new bioinformatics tools to produce diploid genome assemblies from SMRT Sequencing reads. FALCON (Fast ALignment and CONsensus for assembly) and…
In a paper published today in Nature, scientists from Seoul National University, Macrogen, and other institutions present the de novo genome assembly for a Korean individual. The effort used SMRT…
More than 150 SMRT Sequencing users gathered at Stanford University for our annual West Coast User Meeting & workshops earlier this month. Many thanks to all the scientists who attended…
Today we are pleased to release the first Arabidopsis thaliana (Ler-0) dataset and de novo genome assembly generated with the Sequel System, using two SMRT Cells and 12 hours of…
NOTE: This blog was updated with the latest data from the Sequel II System on March 9, 2020. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that affects ~44 million…
A recent cover story in New Zealand Geographic vividly details the efforts to sequence not just the kākāpō genome, but the genomes of every single living kākāpō. If you missed…
We’re lucky to have such a vibrant community of SMRT Sequencing users, and there’s nothing better than getting them together to share tips, exchange ideas, and develop new applications. These…
A case study produced by QRIScloud, an Australia-based cloud computing service, offers interesting insight into a recent project that is using SMRT Sequencing to generate a reference-quality de novo genome…
Stanford’s Euan Ashley wrote a terrific review about the clinical use of genome sequencing for Nature Reviews Genetics. “Towards Precision Medicine” is well worth a read, covering topics from the…
Scientists from Rutgers University and the University of California, Davis, used SMRT Sequencing to study structural variation in maize. They found that this approach delivered more complete information at lower…
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