You Bring Sequencing to Life
Our SMRT Grant Programs support outstanding research projects that advance scientific discovery with long-read sequencing. From the microbiome, to dancing dingoes, disease genes and beyond!
Calling All Scientists
Have an interesting research project that could benefit from Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing? Apply for an upcoming SMRT Grant Program to win sequencing from one of our Certified Service Providers.
The 2020 Plant and Animal Sciences SMRT Grant Program is Now Open!
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Mark your calendar and check back for details on each SMRT Grant.
| Research Focus | Grant Opens |
| Plant and Animal Sciences | Open – Apply Now! |
| Microbiology and Infectious Disease | September |
| Human Biomedical Research | October |
| All Research Areas | December |
Grants are offered across the full range of SMRT Sequencing applications.
 | Whole Genome Sequencing For humans, plants, animals and microbes including de novo assembly and variant detection |  | Complex Populations Understand variants among bacterial, viral and cancer cell populations
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 | RNA Sequencing In-depth analysis of cDNA sequences across the entire transcriptome or targeted genes |  | Epigenetics Detect DNA modifications in your samples while you sequence on the PacBio platform |
 | Targeted Sequencing Study relevant genome targets across any regions of interest |
Don’t want to wait to win a SMRT Grant to get started with highly accurate long-read sequencing? Connect with a PacBio scientist for a free project consultation.
2019 SMRT Grant Programs
 | 2019 HiFi for All SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by Georgia Genomics and Bioinformatics Core, Earlham Institute, and DNA Link, Inc. We are please to announce the three winners of this SMRT Grant:
Read our blog post to learn more about these exciting projects. |
 | 2019 Human Genetics SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center Awarded to Tychele Turner of the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine for her project to address the mysteries of autism with HiFi sequencing. Read blog post.
2019 Neuroscience SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by the University of Liverpool Centre for Genomic Research Awarded to Cleo van Diemen at the University Medical Center Groningen for her project to find new genetic mechanisms associated with spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA). Read blog post.
2019 Targeted Sequencing SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by McDonnell Genome Institute Awarded to Stéphanie Tomé of the Centre de Recherche en Myologie at Sorbonne Université/INSERM for her project to determine the size of repeat expansions in myotonic dystrophy type 1. Read blog post.
2019 RNA Sequencing SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology at Mount Sinai Awarded to Christopher Cogle of the University of Florida for his project “Inhibiting Splicing Repression as a New Therapeutic Strategy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia.” Read blog post. |
 | 2019 Metagenomics SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by Maryland Genomics at the Institute for Genome Sciences Awarded to Joe Taylor of the University of Salford for his project to explore microbial communities in the rain forests of Borneo. Read blog post. |
 | 2019 Plant and Animal Sciences SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by Histogenetics Awarded to Susannah Sample of University of Wisconsin-Madison for her project to sequence the genome of German Shepherds. Read blog post. |