PacBio’s New HiFiViral Surveillance Kit Performance Is Not Impacted By Omicron Mutations, Delivering Complete SARS-CoV-2 Genomes For All Circulating Variants

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By GlobeNewswire MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PacBio (Nasdaq: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, highly accurate, long-read sequencing technology, today announced that its new HiFiViral SARS-CoV-2 solution has successfully sequenced and captured the entire genome of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant lineage. The solution gives researchers around the globe a powerful tool to access complete genomic information on Omicron, without gaps in sequencing information that can result from mutations that occur along the SARS-CoV-2 virus genome. “Detecting the Omicron lineag…

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