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| Welcome! Thank you for your interest in the PacBio BFX Lunch and Learn Webinar Series: quick regional webinars meant to provide a community driven, interactive forum for users to learn useful tidbits from our BFX FAS team in a casual environment. |
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Carmen Guarco, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics FAS, North America Midwest
PacBio
cguarco@pacb.com
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PacBio Bioinformatics Lunch & Learn Webinar: HiFi Assembly Wednesday, March 18, 2020 |
| Time: | 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST |
Learn how to assemble genomes with HiFi reads using FALCON!
The release of the PacBio Sequel II System in 2019 brought dramatic throughput improvements and protocols for producing a new data type, highly accurate long reads or HiFi reads. PacBio is the only sequencing technology to offer highly accurate long reads (HiFi reads) that provide Sanger-quality accuracy (>99%) with the read lengths needed for assembly of complex genomes. The long length and high accuracy of HiFi reads makes them the ideal starting point for many applications, and one area of major interest is genome assembly. HiFi assembly is faster, cheaper, more accurate, and easier to phase than standard Continuous Long Reads (CLR) assembly.
In this webcast, you will learn:
- The difference between CLR and HiFi reads
- The strengths of HiFi read assembly for human, plant, animal, and insect genomes
- Step-by-step instruction on how to assemble HiFi reads using the publicly available FALCON package
Unable to attend the live session? No worries! Sign up and we will send you a link to the recorded webinar.
Have a burning bioinformatics question related to the topic? Send me an email and I can address any questions (anonymously) during the webinar.
Moderator:
Speaker:
Kristina (Kay) Weber, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics FAS, North America East
PacBio
kweber@pacb.com
