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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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Long Reads in All Their Glory: PacBio, ONT User Meetings Report Coming Advances

A pair of user group meetings last week offered some intriguing glimpses into the future of long-read sequencing. Oxford Nanopore customers got together in New York, while PacBio users assembled in Palo Alto, Calif. The Sage Science team attended and … more »

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2015: The Year of Long Reads?

We couldn’t help noticing that “long reads” kept popping up in presentations and posters at AGBT, and we certainly weren’t alone. Aside from longtime long-read provider Pacific Biosciences and synthetic long-read service Moleculo, acquired by Illumina in 2012, new companies … more »

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