The challenge of hidden heritability
The advent of low-cost sequencing has provided a deeper understanding of the role human genetic variation plays in health and disease. However, due to the limitations of short-read technologies, most studies only report single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and small indel events, and miss larger structural variants and other complex genomic elements1. Non-SNV DNA variation accounts for 74% of all variant bases in the human genome2, and may be critical to uncovering the relationship of disease phenotypes to underlying genotypes.
Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing provides full access to human genomic variation through unmatched read lengths, uniform coverage, and exceptional accuracy. PacBio’s long single-molecule reads reveal previously hidden structural variants and produce direct variant phasing information across haplotype blocks. With the PacBio Systems, scientists gain new insight into the genetic basis of disease heritability.
Discover how SMRT Sequencing can impact human biomedical research
- Broaden the utility of precision medicine efforts to improve human health by including structural variation and allelic diversity in study designs
- Advance immune-disease association studies through imputation-free characterization of complex genes and haplotypes
- Drive cancer discovery with access to a more complete genomic cancer landscape
- Characterize pathogens, their mobile elements, host-interactions, communities, and origins to discover and design better vaccines, treatments, and outcomes
- Discover and understand causative biological mechanisms of neurological disease
PacBio long-read sequencing solutions for human biomedical research
- Accurately target and characterize complex regions underlying genetic disease
- Resolve structural variation across the complete size spectrum with base-pair resolution
- Unlock isoform diversity with full-length transcript and transcriptome sequencing
- Investigate pathogenicity, evolution, and selection with sensitive haplotyping of low-frequency viral and somatic variants
- Create gold-standard references unique to a population, disease, or individual
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- Poster: Clark, Tyson A. et al. (2018) Amplification-free Targeted Enrichment and SMRT Sequencing of Repeat-Expansion Genomic Regions
- Poster: Chakraborty, Shreyasee et al. (2018) Mitochondrial DNA Sequencing Using PacBio SMRT Technology
- Poster: Wenger, Aaron et al. (2018) Population-scale discovery of structural variants with PacBio SMRT Sequencing
- Poster: Wenger, A., et al. (2017) Detecting pathogenic structural variants with long-read PacBio SMRT Sequencing
- Poster: McLaughlin, I., et al. (2017) Targeted sequencing using a long-read sequencing technology
- Poster: Clark, Tyson A. et al. (2017) Targeted enrichment without amplification and SMRT Sequencing of repeat-expansion disease causative genomic regions
- Poster: Kingan, S. et al. (2017) Structural Variant Detection with Low-Coverage PacBio Sequencing
- Poster: Hickey, L. et al. (2017) Detecting pathogenic structural variants with low-coverage PacBio sequencing.
- Poster: Ekholm, J. et al. (2017) Screening for causative structural variants in neurological disorders using long-read sequencing
- Poster: Baybayan, P. et al. (2017) Detection of low-frequency somatic variants using Single-Molecule, Real-Time Sequencing
- Poster: Ashby, M. et al. (2017) Simplified sequencing of full-length isoforms in cancer on the PacBio Sequel platform
- Poster: Clark, Tyson A. et al. (2017) SMRT Sequencing of full-length androgen receptor isoforms in prostate cancer reveals previously hidden drug resistant variants
- Poster: Kujawa, Steve et al. (2017) A method for the identification of variants in Alzheimer’s disease candidate genes and transcripts using hybridization capture combined with long-read sequencing
- Poster: Ekholm, Jenny et al. (2017) Screening and characterization of causative structural variants for bipolar disorder in a significantly linked chromosomal region onXq24-q27 in an extended pedigree from a genetic isolate
- Poster: Wenger, Aaron et al. (2017) Structural variant detection with low-coverage Pacbio sequencing
- Poster: Oh, Steve et al. (2017) T-cell receptor profiling using PacBio sequencing of SMARTer libraries
- Poster: Clark, T. A. et al. (2017) Targeted SMRT Sequencing of difficult regions of the genome using a Cas9, non-amplification based method
- Poster: Ashby, Meredith et al. (2017) Using the PacBio IsoSeq method to search for novel colorectal cancer biomarkers
- Poster: Hall, Richard et al. (2017) Using the PacBio Sequel System to taxonomically and functionally classify metagenomic samples in a trial of patients undergoing fecal microbiota transplantation
- Poster: Eng, K. et al. (2016) Target enrichment using a neurology panel for 12 barcoded genomic DNA samples on the PacBio SMRT Sequencing platform
- Poster: McCalmon, S. et al. (2016) “SMRTer Confirmation”: Scalable clinical read-through variant confirmation using the Pacific Biosciences SMRT Sequencing platform
- Poster: Tassone, F. et al. (2016) Alternative splicing in FMR1 premutations carriers
- Poster: Watson, C. T. et al. (2016) Characterizing haplotype diversity at the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus across human populations using novel long-read sequencing and assembly approaches
- Poster: Wenger, A. et al. (2016) Effect of coverage depth and haplotype phasing on structural variant detection with PacBio long reads
- Poster: Carroll, A. et al. (2016) Structural variant combining Illumina and low-coverage PacBio
- Poster: Pollard, M. O. et al. (2016) The MHC Diversity in Africa Project (MDAP) pilot – 125 African high resolution HLA types from 5 populations
- Poster: Kujawa, S. et al. (2016) A method for the identification of variants in Alzheimer’s disease candidate genes and transcripts using hybridization capture combined with long-read sequencing
- Poster: Sethuraman, A. et al. (2016) Characterization of the Poly-T variants in the TOMM40 gene using PacBio long reads
- Poster: Ekholm, J. et al. (2016) Enrichment of unamplified DNA and long-read SMRT Sequencing to unlock repeat expansion disorders
- Poster: Cereb, N et al. (2016) Whole gene sequencing of KIR-3DL1 with SMRT Sequencing and the distribution of allelic variants in different ethnic groups
- Poster: Jenny Gu, Kevin Eng, Anand Sethuraman, Steve Kujawa et al. (2016) Multiplex target enrichment using barcoded multi-kilobase fragments and probe-based capture technologies
- Poster: Ekholm, JM et al. (2016) Resolving KIR genotypes and haplotypes simultaneously using Single Molecule, Real-Time Sequencing
- Poster: Ekholm, Jenny et al. (2016) Candidate gene screening using long-read sequencing
- Poster: Sethuraman, Anand et al. (2016) Highly sensitive and cost-effective detection of somatic cancer variants using single-molecule, real-time sequencing
- Poster: Ekholm, Jenny et al. (2016) Enrichment of unamplified DNA and long-read SMRT Sequencing in unlocking the underlying biological disease mechanisms of repeat expansion disorders
- Wenger, Aaron (2017) Video: Structural variant detection with SMRT Sequencing
- Jacob, Howard (2017) Podcast: Huh? 30 Million Americans Have a Rare Disease? Howard Jacob on the State of Clinical Sequencing
- Brunner, Han (2017) ASHG PacBio Workshop: Long-read sequencing for detecting clinically relevant structural variation
- Lee, Charles (2017) ASHG PacBio Workshop: Multiplatform Discovery of Haplotype-Resolved Structural Variation in Human Genome
- Korlach, Jonas (2017) ASHG PacBio Workshop: PacBio Applications Updates & Future Roadmap
- (2017) Video: Discover structural variation with long-read sequencing
- Wenger, Aaron (2017) Webinar: Detecting Structural Variants in PacBio Reads – Tools and Applications
- Shendure, Jay (2017) Podcast: Exploring the Exome and the Future of Genomics with Jay Shendure
- (2017) Tutorial: Minor Variant Analysis
- (2017) Tutorial: Structural Variant Calling
- Ranade, Swati (2017) Webinar: A Paradigm Shift in HLA Sequencing: From Exons to High-Resolution Allele-Level HLA Typing
- Wenger, Aaron (2017) Webinar: Structural Variant Detection in SMRT Link 5 with PBSV
- Korlach, Jonas (2017) Webinar: Addressing “NGS Dead Zones” with third generation PacBio sequencing
- Kujawa, Steve (2017) Webinar: PacBio Targeted Sequencing of Long Amplicons Using PCR or Hybrid Capture
- Ashby, Meredith (2017) Webinar: Chasing Alternative Splicing in Cancer: Simplified Full-length Isoform Sequencing
- Turner, Stephen (2017) Webinar: An Introduction to PacBio’s Long-Read Sequencing & How It Has Been Used to Make Important Scientific Discoveries
- Roy, Margaret (2017) AGBT PacBio Workshop: De novo sequencing of the naked mole rat genome
- Korlach, Jonas (2017) AGBT PacBio Workshop: SMRT Sequencing roadmap: better throughput, lower costs
- Schatz, Michael (2017) AGBT Conference: Personalized phased diploid genomes of the EN-TEx samples
- Ameur, Adam (2017) AGBT Virtual Poster: Analysis method for amplification-free SMRT sequencing and assessment on repeat expansions in Huntington’s disease
- Ashby, Meredith (2017) AGBT Virtual Poster: Using the PacBio IsoSeq method to search for novel colorectal cancer biomarkers
- Glyllensten, Ulf (2017) AGBT Virtual Poster: Generation of local reference genomes using PacBio and BioNano data, and analysis of the “dark matter” of structural variants in 1000 Swedish genomes
- Paulin, Lars (2017) AGBT Virtual Poster: Single-molecule sequencing reveals the presence of distinct JC polyomavirus populations in patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
- (2017) Tutorial: Iso-Seq analysis application
- (2017) Tutorial: Long Amplicon Analysis application
- Tishkoff, Sarah (2016) Podcast: African genomics a moral obligation, says Sarah Tishkoff, U Penn
- Korlach, Jonas (2016) ASHG PacBio Workshop: A future of high-quality genomes, transcriptomes, and epigenomes
- Lutz, Michael (2016) ASHG PacBio Workshop: Identification and characterization of informative genetic structural variants for neurodegenerative diseases
- Laird Smith, Melissa (2016) ASHG PacBio Workshop: SMRT Sequencing as a translational research tool to investigate germline, somatic and infectious diseases
- Ashley, Euan (2016) ASHG PacBio Workshop: Towards precision medicine
- Tassone, F. and Olaby, R. and Tang, H. and Hickey, L and Tseng, E. (2016) ASHG Virtual Poster: Alternative splicing in FMR1 premutations carriers
- Wenger, A. and Kujawa, S. and Hickey, L. and Chin, J. and Korlach, J. (2016) ASHG Virtual Poster: Effect of coverage depth and haplotype phasing on structural variant detection with PacBio long reads
- Pollard, Martin (2016) ASHG Virtual Poster: The MHC Diversity in Africa Project (MDAP) pilot – 125 African high resolution HLA types from 5 populations
- Wenger, Aaron (2016) Video: Using the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) to visualize PacBio long-read SMRT Sequencing data
- Ekholm, J. and Tsai, Y. and Greenberg, D. and Clark, T. (2016) ASHG Virtual Poster: Enrichment of unamplified DNA and long-read SMRT Sequencing to unlock repeat expansion disorders
- Application Brief: Long-read RNA sequencing – Best Practices. (2018)
- Application Brief: Low-coverage, long-read whole genome sequencing for structural variation – Best Practices. (2018)
- Application Brief: Large genome whole genome sequencing – Best Practices. (2018)
- Application Brochure: No-Amp targeted sequencing. (2018)
- SMRT Sequencing Brochure: Revolutionize genomics with SMRT Sequencing. (2018)
- PacBio Certified Service Providers (2018)
- Whitepaper: Structural Variation in the Human Genome (2017)
- Infographic: Structural Variants and Disease (2017)
- Case Study: SMRT sequencing brings clarity to HIV vaccine and transplant research at the Wisconsin national primate research center. (2017)
- Cancer Brochure: Discover the hidden landscape of cancer variants (2017)
- Human Biomedical Research Brochure: The most comprehensive view of the human genome (2017)
- Case Study: Improving precision medicine studies in Asia using ethnicity-specific human reference genomes and PacBio long-read sequencing. (2017)
- SMRT Analysis Brochure: Gain a deeper understanding of your sequencing data (2017)
- Product Note: Fast, high-resolution DNA sizing with the fragment analyzer system. (2016)
- Application Note: Multiplex target enrichment using barcoded multi-kilobase fragments and probe-based capture technologies. (2016)
- Application Note: Targeted sequencing and chromosomal haplotype assembly using Cergentis TLA technology with SMRT Sequencing. (2016)
- Epigenetics Application Brochure: Characterize the epigenetic landscape of your genome. (2016)
- Case Study: Scientists deconstruct cancer complexity through genome and transcriptome analysis. (2016)