User Group Meeting: Development, validation, and applications of a high-fidelity, species-specific, eubacterial pan-domain microbiome assay on the PacBio System

In this PacBio User Group Meeting presentation, Garth Ehrlich of Drexel University College of Medicine shares his work on developing a microbiome assay that uses SMRT Sequencing to provide high-quality coverage of the 16S bacterial rRNA for species identification. The microbiome analysis pipeline, MCSMRT, takes advantage of PacBio circular consensus sequencing (CCS) technology and second-generation pathway analysis system for generating extremely high-fidelity sequences that provide the user with ultra-high-confidence species-level microbiome data.