inversion.bsky.social
@inversion.bsky.social
Genomics nerd.
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My new tool Paraviewer is now available for use at github.com/PacificBiosc...! If you use Paraphase, try this new next-step tool - it automates and greatly simplifies variant visualization from Paraphase variant calling. If you're at #ASHG2025, visit me today at poster 4109W. #pacbio
GitHub - PacificBiosciences/Paraviewer
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October 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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#PacBio announces major upcoming advances for #Revio and #Vega designed to lower genome costs, expand multiomic capabilities, and support regulated research.

The SPRQ-Nx chemistry, now in beta access, delivers complete genomes for under $300 at scale.

View the press release: bit.ly/4o06eyH
October 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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My complex variant visualization tool SVTopo is now officially published in BMC Genomics! link.springer.com/article/10.1.... This tool allows HiFi users to view complex germline structural variation in intuitive and informative plots.
Complex structural variant visualization with SVTopo - BMC Genomics
Background Structural variants are genomic variants that impact at least 50 nucleotides. Structural variants can play major roles in diversity and human health. Many structural variants are difficult to interpret and understand with existing visualization tools, especially when comprised of inverted sequences or multiple breakend pairs. Results We present SVTopo, a tool to visualize germline structural variants with supporting evidence from high-accuracy long reads in easily understood figures. We include examples of 101 visually complex structural variants from seven unrelated human genomes, manually assigned to ten categories. These demonstrate a broad spectrum of rearrangement and showcase the frequency of complex structural variants in human genomes. Conclusions SVTopo shows breakpoint evidence in ways that aid reasoning about the impact of multi-breakpoint rearrangements. The images created aid human reasoning about the result of structural variation on gene and regulatory regions.
link.springer.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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It absolutely warms my heart when I click on a pre-print that includes a bunch of top methods folks from industry and I see (1) open-source software (with a good license; MIT in this case) that is (2) written in Rust. Bravo @pacbio.bsky.social!

Moar Rust plz!

github.com/PacificBiosc...
October 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Arthur continues, showcasing how long-read sequencing discovered a novel fusion in an ovarian cancer patient—one that short-read methods miscalled as simple overexpression of the 3' fusion partner. #AACR25 #PacBio 
April 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Interesting work from Khi Pin Chua, PhD on precise characterization of complex repeat regions in cancer genomes at #AACR25. Catch him at poster 2 in section 46 (#6288) until 5 PM! #PacBio
April 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Advanced genomic analysis of 4 generation family offers new knowledge about genetic mutations & their transmission, including inherited variants & those that arise anew
@nature.com @uwgenome.bsky.social @eichlerlab.bsky.social @uwmedicine.bsky.social @utah.edu @pacbio.bsky.social
4 generations help science explore genome mutation rate - UW Medicine | Newsroom
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April 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Long-read sequencing of large pedigrees is an ideal way to map all classes of denovo mutations! A collaboration between University of Utah, University of Washington, and PacBio. Glad to be a part of this project 👏

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human de novo mutation rates from a four-generation pedigree reference - Nature
Analysis of more than 95% of each diploid human genome of a four-generation, twenty-eight-member family using five complementary short-read and long-read sequencing technologies provides a truth set t...
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Really neat paper out, using measurements of 3D genome folding (with our Proximo Hi-C tech, wink wink) to pinpoint the CA2 gene as a potential target to reverse drug resistance in #breastcancer.
New study in @CellReports from the team at @MedicalCollege uses Proximo Hi-C to uncover how DNA folds differently in breast cancer. They help pinpoint a potential target to reverse drug resistance, shedding light on methods to improve treatment effectiveness. hubs.la/Q03jcP870 #cancer #breastcancer
April 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I just released a new preprint! The manuscript describes SVTopo, a software tool that enhances visualization of complex SVs using HiFi data: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Here’s a summary of the results:
Complex structural variant visualization with SVTopo
Structural variants are genomic variants that impact at least 50 nucleotides and can play major roles in diversity and human health. Many structural variants are complex multi-breakpoint rearrangement...
www.biorxiv.org
April 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Checkout out a new release of pbfusion (0.5.0) for accurate detection and visualization of fusion transcripts from @pacbio.bsky.social HiFi data.

github.com/PacificBiosc...
December 13, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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“StarPhase: Comprehensive Phase-Aware Pharmacogenomic Diplotyper for Long-Read Sequencing Data” is now on biorxiv! In this work, we explore the use of long-read sequencing (#PacBio #HiFi) for #pharmacogenomics #PGx. 1/N

Pre-print: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Repo: github.com/PacificBiosc...
GitHub - PacificBiosciences/pb-StarPhase: A phase-aware pharmacogenomic diplotyper for PacBio datasets
A phase-aware pharmacogenomic diplotyper for PacBio datasets - PacificBiosciences/pb-StarPhase
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December 11, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Added SPRQ to PacBio training, reducing Indel error on SPRQ by 26%. Added Platinum Pedigree training data for PacBio model, reducing errors by 34% on more extensive Platinum truth. New model and case study for Kinnex/Mas-Seq/Iso-Seq. Additional speed options for GPU pipelines 2/3
December 5, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Release of DeepVariant 1.8. Large speed improvement (~67% faster) via small model for easy sites. New Pangenome-aware option. Reduces error by ~30% for vg-mapped WGS, ~10% for BWA WGS, ~5% BWA exome. New config for custom model users, see release notes.

(github.com/google/deepv...)
December 5, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Our special issue @genomeresearch.bsky.social is out on long-read sequencing (@pacbio.bsky.social & ONT): genome.cshlp.org/content/34/1...

Super excited about all the new work and special thanks to all the authors! Big thanks to Hillary @ahoischen.bsky.social @anaconesa.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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How to call SNV in RNA seq from Nanopore / Pacbio ? Easy: Clair-3RNA biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ~95% / ~96% F1-score for ONT / PacBio + we detect RNA editing! Great collaboration with Ruibang Luo, his group + Miten Jain ( need to invite them over here).
Special thanks to Justin Zook from GIAB!
Clair3-RNA: A deep learning-based small variant caller for long-read RNA sequencing data
Variant calling using long-read RNA sequencing (lrRNA-seq) can be applied to diverse tasks, such as capturing full-length isoforms and gene expression profiling. It poses challenges, however, due to h...
biorxiv.org
November 19, 2024 at 2:23 PM