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from the PacBio Blog In a new paper published in the journal Gene, scientists from Rutgers University and King’s College London report the use of a single SMRT® Cell to sequence and assemble more than 400 wheat-storage protein transcripts from ...

from GenomeWeb NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Pacific Biosciences reported after the close of the market Tuesday that its fourth-quarter revenues fell 52 percent year over year but were up sequentially as product revenue jumped from the third quarter. The ...

MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 29, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB) provider of the PacBio® RS High Resolution Genetic Analyzer, today announced it is releasing a new software upgrade that provides higher quality genome assemblies with ...

Average Read Lengths of 5,000 Bases and Reads as Long as 20,000; PacBio Hosting Workshop at ASHG Annual Meeting MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 6, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB) provider of the PacBio® RS High ...

By Monica Heger from GenomeWeb News Pacific Biosciences booked four new systems in the third quarter of 2012, an increase from just one in the previous quarter, but down from six in the year-ago quarter. The Q3 orders bring its ...

From GenomeWeb News… One factor in the continued struggles for life science tools stocks is concern over funding from government sources both in the US and abroad. Leading the decliners for the second month in a row was Pacific Biosciences, ...

On September 20, 2011, Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (the “Company”) implemented a reduction in its workforce of approximately 130 employees, or approximately 28% of its total workforce. The actions taken were in consideration of uncertainties associated with the economic ...

from GenomeWeb NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Pacific Biosciences reported after the close of the market Tuesday an increase in its grant revenues for the fourth quarter and full-year 2010, and a $140.2 million loss for the year as it ...

from Genetic Engineering News- Third-Generation Sequencing Debuts by Vicki Glaser Helicos BioSciences In Helicos’ tSMS technology, labeled nucleotides are mixed with nucleic-acid templates immobilized on a flow cell. Detection of the fluorescent signals emitted as a result of each base ...

Which sequencing platform/technology is best suited for RNA-Seq applications? Platform                                  Votes Roche/454 – GS FLX                        4 Illumina – Genome Analyzer            12 Illumina – HiSeq                             16 Applied Biosystems – SOLiD            6 Helicos – HeliScope                         2 Pacific Biosciences                          2 Total Votes                                   42