It was a packed house as PacBio scientists led the inaugural CoLabs presentation at ASHG17 A new program at ASHG this year came from the CoLaboratories, or educational theaters featuring 30-minute talks on a variety of clinical, laboratory, and data analysis topics. We were honored to present in the inaugural CoLabs today, with PacBio scientists offering tips on CRISPR/Cas9 enrichment as well as long-read whole genome sequencing for structural variant discovery. Tyson Clark, Ph.D Tyson Clark, director of applications development, gave a talk titled “Targeted Enrichment without Amplification and SMRT Sequencing of Repeat-Expansion Disease Causative Genomic Regions.” He demonstrated a…
The PacBio team hosted a luncheon workshop at ASHG yesterday titled “Population and Clinical Genetics Studies Using Long-read SMRT Sequencing.” Thanks to all the conference attendees who took time out of a very busy meeting to join us! If you couldn’t attend, we summarized the highlights below and will share recordings of the presentations soon. Long-read Sequencing – for Detecting Clinically Relevant Structural Variation Han Brunner, M.D Han Brunner, Head of Clinical Genetics at Radboud University Medical Center, kicked off the event with a talk about using SMRT Sequencing to detect clinically relevant structural variation. Introducing himself as a consumer…
We’re here in rainy, but beautiful Vancouver for the American Society of Human Genetics. ASHG 2016 promises to be every bit as fascinating as always, with great speakers, excellent sessions, and thought-provoking posters. The PacBio team will be based in booth #718, and we encourage you to stop by to see the Sequel System and learn more about how SMRT Sequencing has already made a genuine difference in our understanding of human genetics. We’re impressed by the wide variety of ASHG posters citing PacBio data this year and hope you get a chance to peruse them. We’ll be hosting a luncheon workshop…