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
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Sequence Metagenomes with Confidence
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 | 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 systems 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
- Martijn, Joran et al. (2019) Confident phylogenetic identification of uncultured prokaryotes through long read amplicon sequencing of the 16S-ITS-23S rRNA operon. Environmental microbiology
- Callahan, Benjamin J et al. (2019) High-throughput amplicon sequencing of the full-length 16S rRNA gene with single-nucleotide resolution. Nucleic acids research
- Zan, Jindong et al. (2019) A microbial factory for defensive kahalalides in a tripartite marine symbiosis. Science
- Tedersoo, Leho et al. (2019) Towards PacBio-based pan-eukaryote metabarcoding using full-length ITS sequences. Environmental microbiology reports
- Ashton, P M et al. (2019) Three phylogenetic groups have driven the recent population expansion of Cryptococcus neoformans. Nature communications
- Jayaraman, Siddharth et al. (2019) Application of long read sequencing to determine expressed antigen diversity in Trypanosoma brucei infections. PLoS neglected tropical diseases
- Murphy, Timothy F et al. (2019) Persistence of Moraxella catarrhalis in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Regulation of the Hag/MID Adhesin. The Journal of infectious diseases
- Beaulaurier, John et al. (2019) Deciphering bacterial epigenomes using modern sequencing technologies. Nature reviews. Genetics
- Olarte, Rodrigo A et al. (2019) Chromosome rearrangements shape the diversification of secondary metabolism in the cyclosporin producing fungus Tolypocladium inflatum. BMC genomics
- Pinzone, Marilia Rita et al. (2019) Longitudinal HIV sequencing reveals reservoir expression leading to decay which is obscured by clonal expansion. Nature communications
- Masonbrink, Rick et al. (2019) The genome of the soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines) reveals complex patterns of duplications involved in the evolution of parasitism genes. BMC genomics
- Kingan, Sarah et al. (2019) A high-quality de novo genome assembly from a single mosquito using PacBio sequencing Genes
- Mehta, Devang et al. (2019) 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
- Su, Bin et al. (2019) Detection of pretreatment minority HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitor-resistant variants by ultra-deep sequencing has a limited impact on virological outcomes. The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
- Biessy, Adrien et al. (2019) Diversity of phytobeneficial traits revealed by whole-genome analysis of worldwide-isolated phenazine-producing Pseudomonas spp. Environmental microbiology
- Hiraoka, Satoshi et al. (2019) Metaepigenomic analysis reveals the unexplored diversity of DNA methylation in an environmental prokaryotic community. Nature communications
- Nilsson, R Henrik et al. (2019) Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi. Nature reviews. Microbiology
- Liang, Quanhui et al. (2019) Sequencing and Genomic Diversity Analysis of IncHI5 Plasmids. Frontiers in microbiology
- Ameur, Adam et al. (2019) Single-Molecule Sequencing: Towards Clinical Applications. Trends in biotechnology
- Chen, Yujiao et al. (2019) Study of the whole genome, methylome and transcriptome of Cordyceps militaris. Scientific reports
- Bickhart, Derek et al. (2018) Assignment of virus and antimicrobial resistance genes to microbial hosts in a complex microbial community by combined long-read assembly and proximity ligation 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
- Eren, Kemal et al. (2018) Full-Length Envelope Analyzer (FLEA): A tool for longitudinal analysis of viral amplicons. PLoS computational biology
- Beaulaurier, John et al. (2018) Metagenomic binning and association of plasmids with bacterial host genomes using DNA methylation. Nature biotechnology
- Campino, Susana et al. (2018) A forward genetic screen reveals a primary role for Plasmodium falciparum Reticulocyte Binding Protein Homologue 2a and 2b in determining alternative erythrocyte invasion pathways. PLoS pathogens
- Slager, Jelle et al. (2018) Deep genome annotation of the opportunistic human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae D39. Nucleic acids research
- Müller, Laura S M et al. (2018) Genome organization and DNA accessibility control antigenic variation in trypanosomes. Nature
- Heeger, Felix et al. (2018) Long-read DNA metabarcoding of ribosomal RNA in the analysis of fungi from aquatic environments. Molecular ecology resources
- 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
- 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
- Poster: Jain, S. et al. (2019) Comparison of sequencing approaches applied to complex soil metagenomes to resolve proteins of interest
- Poster: Ekholm, Jenny et al. (2019) Streamlines SMRTbell library generation using addition-only, single tube strategy for all library types reduces time to results
- 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 Garimella, Kiran and Tallon, Luke and McCarthy, Shane (2019) Webinar: Sequence with Confidence – Introducing the Sequel II System
- Ashby, Meredith (2019) Webinar: Long-read sequencing and infectious disease: New insights into longstanding challenges
- Auch, Ben, and Sheik, Cody and van Bakel, Harm (2019) Webinar: Complete genomes within reach – Closing bacterial genomes from the lakes of Minnesota to NYC hospitals
- 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 Brief: Microbial whole genome sequencing – Best Practices (2019)
- Application Brochure: Explore metagenomes in high resolution (2019)
- Case Study: Mining complex metagenomes for protein discovery with long-read sequencing (2019)
- Case Study: Sequencing an historic bacterial collection for the future (2019)
- PacBio Certified Service Providers (2019)
- SMRT Sequencing Brochure: Delivering highly accurate long reads to drive discovery in life science (2019)
- Product Note: SMRTbell express template prep 2.0 for microbial multiplexing (2019)
- Application Note: Microbial multiplexing workflow on the Sequel System (2019)
- SMRT Analysis Brochure: Gain a deeper understanding of your sequencing data (2018)
- 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)