This blog features voices from PacBio — and our partners and colleagues — discussing the latest research, publications, and updates about HiFi sequencing.
According to many, PacBio is the new “gold standard” in microbial sequencing. Chief Scientific Officer Jonas Korlach notes that its ability to simultaneously provide long sequencing reads (genome contiguity), high…
Many thanks to all the PacBio users who attended our annual user group meeting, hosted in St. Louis for the first time. It was great to see so many people…
It’s a murder mystery of massive proportion, albeit on a miniature scale: Male-killing among several species of insects, caused by selfish symbiotic bacteria. Swiss researchers believe they have finally solved…
In addition to the most common applications, like whole genome sequencing for de novo assembly, there are several other features you can utilize to advance your science or incorporate to…
What’s in a name? Too much, when it comes to the taxology of yeast, it turns out. Scientists from University College of Dublin have found that two distinctly named species…
When was the last time you sent your DNA off to a day at the spa? Olga Pettersson of the SciLifeLab at Uppsala University lets her molecules relax for up…
When it comes to bacteria, resistance is not always futile, or so we learned at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. One of our favorite events of…
The genomes of 3,000 strains of bacteria, including some of the deadliest in the world, are now available to researchers as part of an ambitious project by the UK’s National…
We’re told to avoid sugar and refined carbohydrates if we want our teeth to remain strong and cavity-free. But what is the role of microbiota in our oral health? Cavities…
The Department of Energy has its eyes on an unassuming solution to our bioenergy needs: Aspergillus. The fungal genus contains hundreds of variations, which include powerful pathogens, industrial cell factories,…
Unraveling the role of the microbiome in human health and environmental samples is an emerging priority in scientific study. But despite the best advances in sequencing technology, identifying the bacteria,…
Sanger’s Genome Campus We are pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Public Health England to complete the sequences of 3,000 bacterial genome strains…
The Genomics Resource Center (GRC) at the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) has a scientific pedigree and a sample-to-interpretation service commitment that place it in a league of its own….
A new paper released in Genome Biology on September 13 from lead author Sergey Koren at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center offers a thorough overview of SMRT® Sequencing…
Microbiologists have been at the forefront of genomics since Haemophilus influenzae became the first organism to have its full genome sequenced in 1995 using Sanger sequencing. Even with modern technology,…
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