This blog features voices from PacBio — and our partners and colleagues — discussing the latest research, publications, and updates about HiFi sequencing.
We’re pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Microbial Genomics SMRT Grant. Mark Webber, Research Leader at Quadram Institute Bioscience in the UK, will get free SMRT Sequencing and…
Xiaochang Zhang, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, is poised to get a powerful new data set to help his team understand the role of alternative splicing in…
When German diver Joachim Kreiselmaier reached the deepest parts of the Danube-Aach cave system, he couldn’t believe his eyes: a “strange fish,” with a pale body coloration and smaller eyes…
When it comes to bacteria, resistance is not always futile, or so we learned at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. One of our favorite events of…
Structural variants account for most of the base pairs that differ between human genomes, and are known to cause more than 1,000 genetic disorders, including ALS, schizophrenia, and hereditary cancer….
Corals are critical to sustaining sea life in many parts of the world, contributing to an elaborate ecosystem that lives in and around their mineralized calcium carbonate skeletons. In addition…
A project that sparked widespread interest and a successful science crowdsourcing campaign has inspired an international collaboration that produced two high-quality reference genomes, as well as a draft genome of…
Mike Hunkapiller was interviewed for a podcast recently on Mendelspod. In it, Mike and Mendelspod host Theral Timpson chat about the current sequencing technology landscape, clinical applications of sequencing, and…
Plus: Accuracy Boost, Integrated Full-Length cDNA Analysis and Barcoding Support We’re pleased to announce the release of a new software upgrade — SMRT® Analysis v1.4.0 — that achieves higher quality…
By Jonas Korlach, Chief Scientific Officer With our minds turning to what 2013 has in store for us, it’s a good opportunity to look ahead to the advances you can…
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