We were delighted to be back at the University of Maryland this summer for our annual East Coast User Group Meeting. The day-long event, preceded by half-day workshops on sample prep and bioinformatics, exceeded our expectations. From the packed session hall to the terrific science and great discussions, the UGM facilitated the exchange of best practices and new suggestions for optimizing SMRT Sequencing performance for a variety of applications. Below is a recap of the day’s highlights, with several of the presentations available to download. PacBio scientist Aaron Wenger presented the Structural Variant Calling application that is included in the…
Last month, we co-hosted the 2nd annual SMRT Leiden conference with Leiden University Medical Center. SMRT Leiden featured three days of excellent presentations, including one day focused on bioinformatics. If you missed it, we’ve prepared this quick recap to cover the highlights. In addition, several of the presentations are available to download, and you can check out tweets from day 1 and day 2. The meeting kicked off with a clinical angle: Eric Schadt from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai gave a keynote talk about capturing the clinically actionable genome. Noting that we are in an age…
We are excited to announce our 2017 series of SMRT Community Events and User Group Meetings (UGMs), where you can learn first-hand how members of the scientific community are leveraging the latest capabilities of SMRT Sequencing for a growing number of applications. Our vibrant community of users are enthusiastic about sharing tips, exchanging ideas, and developing new applications. These upcoming events will facilitate just that — and we hope you can join us! We are now accepting registrations for our SMRT Leiden, Americas East Coast UGM and Asia Pacific UGM. Please save the date for our Americas West Coast UGM,…