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Leveraging the power of long reads for targeted sequencing

December 2024 Authors: Shruti V. Iyer, Sara Goodwin, and William Richard McCombie Abstract: “Long-read sequencing technologies have improved the contiguity and, as a result, the quality of genome assemblies by generating reads long enough to span and resolve complex or … more »

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SageELF Size Selection for PacBio Circular Consensus Sequencing

A new preprint has landed on BioRxiv that reports on high-accuracy circular consensus sequencing (CCS) on the PacBio Sequel. The study, “Highly-accurate long-read sequencing improves variant detection and assembly of a human genome”, is authored by PacBio and an impressive … more »

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Join Us at the Upcoming Long-Read Workshop at Jackson Lab

Long-read sequencing is steadily gaining traction as scientists realize its value for resolving regions of the genome that are intractable with short-read methods. From structural variants to repetitive or GC-rich regions, many clinically important stretches of the human genome just … more »

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