Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (PACB)

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"PacBio Technology Resolves Complex Maize Genome, Driving Demand for Other Large-Scale AgBio Sequencing Projects.."
.From the prestigious "Nature" journal.

."While this work was done on our older system,
these impressive results are likely to drive demand for large-scale sequencing projects of crop genomes and we expect that much of this work will be done using our newer, lower-cost, high-throughput instrument, the Sequel System," said Kevin Corcoran, Senior Vice President of Market Development for Pacific Biosciences. "Various groups are already pursuing multiple-reference genome strategies for major crops including maize, sorghum, cotton, and soybean, as well as many specialty crops. This publication provides a roadmap for generating the high-quality assemblies that are needed in crop improvement programs, especially for very complex and repetitive plant genomes."


This oughta help!
We don't need many articles like this to make a real difference in PACB"s fortunes.