The new Sequel IIe System provides direct access to HiFi sequencing Still soaring from the success of last year’s launch of the award-winning Sequel II System, we’re excited to announce the next evolution of the instrument: the Sequel IIe System. This evolution includes increased computing power and advanced on-instrument data processing. This means the instrument can directly produce the widely coveted, highly accurate long reads, known as HiFi reads, that have made the original Sequel II System indispensable for many labs — and save users time and money in the process. Just how much of an improvement does the new…
PacBio customer HistoGenetics was just awarded a major, multi-year contract to perform HLA typing on as many as thousands of samples per week using SMRT Sequencing. The company is a pioneer and global leader in high-resolution sequence-based HLA typing services. As blog readers know, HLA typing involves analysis of highly polymorphic human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes comprised within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on chromosome 6. Accurate HLA typing is essential for research on donor recipient tissue matching during transplantation, autoimmune disease-association studies, drug hypersensitivity research, and several other applications. But the complexity of the region, which contains thousands of…
We’re already looking forward to next month’s Personalized Medicine World Conference. Long before “precision medicine” was an industry catchphrase, PMWC was bringing together stakeholders from genomics companies and academic research, regulatory agencies, clinical groups, pharma/biotech, and more. Launched in 2009, the meeting has prompted important discussions as well as insight about how to move the field forward in a thoughtful way. From January 24th to the 27th, some 1,200 PMWC attendees will descend on the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. The event will kick off with a reception honoring the four awardees of this conference: Merck’s Roger Perlmutter…