Musings of a graduate student with a focus on bioinformatics, genomics, machine learning, data mining, and all things nerdy.
27 April 2011
Let the games begin
Earlier today, Pacific Biosciences (Menlo Park, CA) announced that they are now shipping their commercial single molecule, real-time PacBio RS sequencing systems. In the press release, PacBio claim that their new technology "allows customers to obtain results in less than a day", compared to the week+ it takes to obtain data from other sequencing technologies. While papers, talks, and videos of PacBio technology has certainly created a buzz among researchers, it will be interesting to see how this step affects business. NASDAQ:PACB stock closed at 11.60 today, lower than their $16 starting share price last October when they IPO'd.
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