Sequence the microbial world with confidence
Microbes account for most of the diversity of life on our planet, yet fewer than 1% have been identified. To understand this ever-evolving world, scientists need the unbiased, accurate, and comprehensive information that only PacBio long-read sequencing can provide.
See the details that drive biological insights with highly accurate, closed genomes that include epigenetic information.
Prokaryotic methylation | Why closed genomes?
Address global needs for novel therapeutics, environmental remediation, and efficient chemical production by mining even the most difficult to sequence microbial genomes.
Biofuel research at JGI | Natural product discovery | Scalable biosynthesis
Advance human health worldwide with new insights into the viruses, bacteria, and protozoa that cause infectious disease.
HIV | Cholera | Malaria | Sleeping sickness | Chagas | Leishmania
Protect public health by finding all the variant types that drive the spread of antimicrobial resistance and contribute to bacterial virulence.
Klebsiella in hospitals | Carbapenem resistance | Shiga-toxigenic E. coli | Tuberculosis virulence
Explore the role of microbial symbionts and pathogens in plant and animal health and disease.
Entomopathogen biology | Closed Xanthomonas genomes | Methylation directs a pathogen lifecycle
 | Whole Genome Sequencing Assemble microbial genomes that are the gold standard for both completeness and accuracy with ease and confidence |
 | Metagenomics Comprehensively characterize metagenomes with long, highly accurate, single-molecule reads – no assembly required |
 | Bacterial Epigenetics Detect the recognition motifs of active R-M system at coverage levels recommended for assembly |
| | Viral Populations Use long, highly accurate single-molecule reads to deconvolute complex populations, track viral evolution and quantify minor variants |
Selected Resources
- Hiraoka, Satoshi et al. (2019) Metaepigenomic analysis reveals the unexplored diversity of DNA methylation in an environmental prokaryotic community. Nature communications
- Beaulaurier, John et al. (2018) Deciphering bacterial epigenomes using modern sequencing technologies Nature reviews. Genetics
- Slager, Jelle et al. (2018) Deep genome annotation of the opportunistic human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae D39. Nucleic acids research
- Biessy, Adrien et al. (2018) Diversity of phytobeneficial traits revealed by whole-genome analysis of worldwide-isolated phenazine-producing Pseudomonas spp. Environmental microbiology
- Nilsson, R Henrik et al. (2018) Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi. Nature reviews. Microbiology
- Mehta, Devang et al. (2018) A new full-length circular DNA sequencing method for viral-sized genomes reveals that RNAi transgenic plants provoke a shift in geminivirus populations in the field. Nucleic acids research
- Jayaraman, Siddharth et al. (2018) Application of long read sequencing to determine expressed antigen diversity in Trypanosoma brucei infections BioRxiv
- Grech-Baran, Marta et al. (2018) Extreme resistance to Potato Virus Y in potato carrying the Rysto gene is mediated by a TIR-NLR immune receptor BioRxiv
- Fallon, Timothy R et al. (2018) Firefly genomes illuminate parallel origins of bioluminescence in beetles. eLife
- Müller, Laura S M et al. (2018) Genome organization and DNA accessibility control antigenic variation in trypanosomes. Nature
- Benavente, Ernest Diez et al. (2018) Global genetic diversity of var2csa in Plasmodium falciparum with implications for malaria in pregnancy and vaccine development. Scientific reports
- O'Brien, Sofie A et al. (2018) Single copy transgene integration in a transcriptionally active site for recombinant protein synthesis. Biotechnology journal
- Castellanos, Mildred et al. (2018) A Borrelia burgdorferi mini-vls system that undergoes antigenic switching in mice: investigation of the role of plasmid topology and the long inverted repeat. Molecular microbiology
- Mathew, Lolita G et al. (2018) ABC transporter mis-splicing associated with resistance to Bt toxin Cry2Ab in laboratory- and field-selected pink bollworm. Scientific reports
- Zhao, Nan et al. (2018) Influenza virus infection causes global RNAPII termination defects. Nature structural & molecular biology
- Yan, Bo et al. (2018) SMRT-Cappable-seq reveals complex operon variants in bacteria. Nature communications
- Callahan, Benjamin J et al. (2018) High-throughput amplicon sequencing of the full-length 16S rRNA gene with single-nucleotide resolution BioRxiv
- Redondo, Miguel A et al. (2018) Contrasting distribution patterns between aquatic and terrestrial Phytophthora species along a climatic gradient are linked to functional traits. The ISME journal
- Löber, Ulrike et al. (2018) Degradation and remobilization of endogenous retroviruses by recombination during the earliest stages of a germ-line invasion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Heeger, Felix et al. (2018) Long-read DNA metabarcoding of ribosomal RNA in the analysis of fungi from aquatic environments. Molecular ecology resources
- Kumari, Romika et al. (2018) PausePred and Rfeet: webtools for inferring ribosome pauses and visualizing footprint density from ribosome profiling data. RNA
- Atack, John M et al. (2018) Phasevarions of bacterial pathogens: Methylomics sheds new light on old enemies. Trends in microbiology
- Ameur, Adam et al. (2018) Single-molecule sequencing: Towards clinical applications Trends in biotechnology
- Johnston, Christopher D et al. (2018) SyngenicDNA: stealth-based evasion of restriction-modification barriers during bacterial genetic engineering BioRxiv
- Poulter, Russell T. M. et al. (2018) Comparison between complete genomes of an isolate of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae from Japan and a New Zealand isolate of the pandemic. Scientific reports
- Douglass, Alexander P et al. (2018) Population genomics shows no distinction between pathogenic Candida krusei and environmental Pichia kudriavzevii: One species, four names. PLoS pathogens
- Tai, Phillip WL et al. (2018) Adeno-associated virus genome population sequencing achieves full vector genome resolution and reveals human-vector chimeras Molecular therapy
- Mehta, Devang et al. (2018) CRISPR-Cas9 interference in cassava linked to the evolution of editing-resistant geminiviruses BioRxiv
- Verhey, Theodore B et al. (2018) Antigenic variation in the lyme spirochete: Insights into recombinational switching with a suggested role for error-prone repair. Cell reports
- Xin, Tianyi et al. (2018) Biomonitoring for traditional herbal medicinal products using DNA metabarcoding and single molecule, real-time sequencing. Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B
- P.E. Zida et al. (2018) Increasing sorghum yields by seed treatment with an aqueous extract of the plant Eclipta alba may involve a dual mechanism of hydropriming and suppression of fungal pathogens Crop protection
- Harumoto, Toshiyuki et al. (2018) Male-killing toxin in a bacterial symbiont of Drosophila. Nature
- Zhao, Liang et al. (2018) The highly heterogeneous methylated genomes and diverse restriction-modification systems of bloom-forming Microcystis. Harmful algae
- Vincent, Antony T et al. (2018) Unexpected diversity in the mobilome of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain isolated from a dental unit waterline revealed by SMRT Sequencing. Genome
- Berná, Luisa et al. (2018) Expanding an expanded genome: long-read sequencing of Trypanosoma cruzi. Microbial genomics
- Poster: Wong, J. et al. (2018) Single chromosomal genome assemblies on the Sequel System with Circulomics high molecular weight DNA extraction for microbes
- Poster: Boitano, M. et al. (2018) Full-length cDNA sequencing of prokaryotic transcriptome and metatranscriptome samples
- Poster: Heiner, Cheryl et al. (2018) Multiplexed complete microbial genomes on the Sequel System
- Poster: Lambert, C. et al. (2017) Multiplexing strategies for microbial whole genome sequencing using the Sequel System
- Poster: Kingan, Sarah et al. (2017) A high-quality genome assembly of SMRT sequences reveals long range haplotype structure in the diploid mosquito Aedes aegypti
- 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: Kingan, S. et al. (2017) A high-quality genome assembly of SMRT Sequences reveals long-range haplotype structure in the diploid mosquito Aedes aegypti
- Poster: Concepcion, G. et al. (2017) Phased diploid genome assembly with single-molecule real-time sequencing
- Poster: Heiner, C. et al. (2017) Profiling complex population genomes with highly accurate single molecule reads: cow rumen microbiomes
- Korlach, Jonas and Corney, Dave (2018) Webinar: A new paradigm in DNA sequencing – Highly accurate single-molecule long reads
- Ehrlich, Garth (2018) User Group Meeting: Development, validation, and applications of a high-fidelity, species-specific, eubacterial pan-domain microbiome assay on the PacBio System
- Korlach, Jonas (2018) Webinar: New PacBio solutions for high-resolution microbiology & immunology analysis
- Pillai, Nisha (2018) Webinar: Assessing the targeted regions using a PacBio Amplicon analysis applications
- (2018) Tutorial: Multiplexed Microbial Assembly [SMRT Link v5.1.0]
- Hatas, Emily (2017) Webinar: SMRT Sequencing applications in plant and animal sciences: an overview
- (2017) Tutorial: Minor variant analysis [SMRT Link v5.0.0]
- Kingan, Sarah (2017) Webinar: Understanding, curating, and analyzing your diploid genome assembly
- Turner, Stephen (2017) Webinar: An introduction to PacBio’s long-read sequencing & how it has been used to make important scientific discoveries
- Neafsey, Daniel (2017) AGBT Conference: A community effort using multiple technologies to produce a dramatically improved genome assembly of the Zika virus mosquito vector
- Auvignen, Petra (2017) AGBT Virtual Poster: Interspecies interation amoung meat spoilage-related lactic acid bacteria
- 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: Base modification detection, base modification and motif analysis application [SMRT Link v5.0.0]
- (2017) Tutorial: HGAP4 de novo assembly application [SMRT Link v5.0.0]
- Matthews, Ben (2017) PAG PacBio Workshop: Genome assembly and molecular genetics of the dengue, yellow fever, and zika vector Aedes aegypti
- Laird Smith, Melissa (2016) ASHG PacBio Workshop: SMRT Sequencing as a translational research tool to investigate germline, somatic and infectious diseases
- Korlach, J. and Kingan, S. (2016) i5K Webinar: High-quality de novo insect genome assemblies using PacBio sequencing
- Hannigan, Brett (2016) DNAnexus Webinar: Simplifying de novo assembly with PacBio tools available on DNAnexus: FALCON
- Ameur, Adam (2016) AGBT Roche and PacBio Workshop: Clinical SMRT Sequencing – from single genes to complete genomes
- Murrell, Ben (2016) AGBT Roche and PacBio Workshop: Deeply sequencing entire genes from rapidly evolving viruses
- Paxinos, Ellen (2016) AGBT Virtual Poster: An improved circular consensus algorithm with an application to detect HIV-1 Drug Resistance Associated Mutations (DRAMs)
- Seetin, Matthew (2016) AGBT Virtual Poster: Long-read assembly of the Aedes aegypti Aag2 cell line genome resolves ancient endogenous viral elements
- Heiner, Cheryl (2016) AGBT Virtual Poster: Low-input long-read sequencing for complete microbial genomes and metagenomic community analysis
- Heiner, Cheryl (2016) AGBT Virtual Poster: Minimization of chimera formation and substitution errors in full-length 16S PCR amplification
- Hall, Richard (2016) AGBT Virtual Poster: Profiling the microbiome in fecal microbiota transplantation using circular consensus and Single Molecule, Real-Time Sequencing
- Morey, Robert (2016) AGBT Virtual Poster: Using PacBio sequencing as a synthetic biology error analysis tool
- Chin, Jason (2016) PAG Conference: Diploid genome assembly and comprehensive haplotype sequence reconstruction
- Application Brochure: Microbial communities – Complex microbial populations simplified. (2018)
- PacBio Certified Service Providers (2018)
- SMRT Sequencing Brochure: Revolutionize genomics with SMRT Sequencing (2018)
- Application Brief: Microbial whole genome sequencing – Best Practices (2018)
- Application Note: Microbial multiplexing workflow on the Sequel System (2018)
- SMRT Analysis Brochure: Gain a deeper understanding of your sequencing data (2017)
- Industrial Biotechnology Brochure: Fuel biotech discovery with confident characterization of microbes and their communities. (2016)
- Epigenetics Application Brochure: Characterize the epigenetic landscape of your genome. (2016)
- Product Note: Fast, high-resolution DNA Sizing with the Fragment Analyzer system (2016)