This blog features voices from PacBio — and our partners and colleagues — discussing the latest research, publications, and updates about HiFi sequencing.
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Sequel II System, reducing project costs and timelines with approximately eight times the data output compared to the previous Sequel System. It…
We are pleased to announce the availability of our protocol for template preparation to support low DNA input for sequencing on the Sequel System. The low DNA input workflow features…
The PacBio team was honored to have the opportunity to give several talks at this year’s Advances in Genome Biology & Technology conference. If you weren’t able to be there,…
UPDATED January 18, 2019 This paper is now available at Genes. ORIGINAL POST December 19, 2018 High-quality reference and de novo genomes have been celebrated by geneticists, population biologists and conservationists…
Today we’re pleased to announce the release of Sequel System 6.0, including new software, consumable reagents and a new SMRT Cell. Combined, the enhancements in the release improve the performance and affordability of…
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…
Many people who run a sequencing core lab would prefer to focus on science instead of business, but all core lab managers know that it’s imperative to keep a steady…
A new Nature Biotechnology publication is sending reverberations through the CRISPR and gene therapy communities. The discovery that the widely used CRISPR/Cas9 method results in far more genomic changes than…
Today we’re pleased to announce the release of a new version of Sequel Software (V5.1) and a new polymerase. Combined, these upgrades increase throughput and overall performance for key SMRT…
Our R&D team has been focusing on chemistry improvements for the PacBio® RS II sequencer and today we are pleased to announce our newest reagent combination, the P5 DNA polymerase…
Pacific Biosciences is pleased to announce the introduction of DNA/Polymerase Binding Kit P4. This P4 enzyme has average read lengths of >4,300 bp when paired with the C2 sequencing chemistry…
A paper from scientists at the Broad Institute reports a rigorous study of bias across all major sequencing platforms. In “Characterizing and measuring bias in sequence data,” published in Genome…
Today offered something new for the PacBio® team: our SMRT® technology was the subject of a tweet chat hosted by Genome Biology. For one hour, editors at the journal along…
As PacBio customers are upgrading to the new PacBio® RS II System, some of our core lab users have already begun blogging about the improved results. At the University of…
The 100K Foodborne Pathogen Genome Project announced the contribution of 20 newly finished genomes of microbes responsible for foodborne disease, and we’re pleased to report that they were sequenced and…
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