It’s been a busy start to the summer, but we’re still basking in the top-notch presentations and posters from the Sequencing, Finishing, and Analysis in the Future meeting last month. Hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory in Santa Fe, this has become a premier event for scientists working on sequencing protocols, analysis, and assembly methods. Many speakers presented data including reads from Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing. Jeff Rogers from Baylor College of Medicine used long PacBio® reads with the PBJelly algorithm to fill gaps in many mammalian genomes, including sheep, rat, baboon, sooty mangabey, and mouse lemur. Tina Graves-Lindsay…
The Sequencing, Finishing, and Analysis in the Future (SFAF) meeting kicks off today in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The conference is hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory and focuses on the analytical details that are so important as the community assesses how to get the most out of all this sequence data. This year, we will have two PacBio speakers, and there will be a number of other talks from users of our long-read sequence data. Steve Turner, our CTO, will speak on Wednesday morning about the use of Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing for generating highly contiguous genome assemblies…
Last month’s Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future (SFAF) meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory, attracted terrific scientists and we really enjoyed hearing about their work as well as sharing our own technology advances. It was great to be at a meeting where genome finishing and analysis were key themes; it was an environment where our customers’ experience with HGAP and Quiver resonated, particularly around the automated finishing of microbial genomes. SFAF had a number of keynote speakers, including Mark Adams from the J. Craig Venter Institute, who spoke about antibiotic resistance in microbes.…
by Jonas Korlach, Chief Scientific Officer Finished genomes were the focus of last month's Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future (SFAF) meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In addition to several presentations, including a talk by Adam Phillippy from the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center that demonstrated the ability to generate high-quality, finished microbial genomes using just long-read PacBio data, several papers have appeared recently describing the same principle: the HGAP/Quiver Nature Methods paper, the FDA’s Salmonella Javiana outbreak genome publication, a blog entry by the University of Maryland using HGAP, and a preprint by Adam Phillippy and colleagues…