Reposted by Jon BelyeuJocelyne Bruand @jocelyne8.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Our Isocall paper is out on bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...! 🎉 Isocall enables scalable joint isoform calling on PacBio data, allowing for the characterization of isoform diversity across cohort-scale data. (1/7) 174
Reposted by Jon BelyeuMatt Holt @holtjma.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Our article introducing Aardvark for variant benchmarking is now published in Genome Biology! “Aardvark: sifting through differences in a mound of variants” DOI: doi.org/10.1186/s130... GitHub: github.com/PacificBiosc... Follow along for some highlights… 1/Ndoi.orgClient Challenge 12210
Jon Belyeu @jonbelyeu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025My 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. #pacbiogithub.comGitHub - PacificBiosciences/ParaviewerContribute to PacificBiosciences/Paraviewer development by creating an account on GitHub. 175
Reposted by Jon BelyeuPacBio @pacbio.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Attending #ASHG25? Visit #PacBio at booth 919! Connect with our team, explore live demos of #Vega, and discover the latest in long-read sequencing. While you’re there, enter our daily Labubu drawing! See the full program here: bit.ly/4nmBnfn #ASHG #HumanGenomics #ASHG2025 072
Jon Belyeu @jonbelyeu.bsky.social · 09/10/2025My 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.link.springer.comComplex structural variant visualization with SVTopo - BMC GenomicsBackground 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. 267
Reposted by Jon BelyeuMatt Holt @holtjma.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I'm excited to share our pre-print about a new variant benchmarking tool we've been working on for the past few months! Aardvark: Sifting through differences in a mound of variants GitHub: github.com/PacificBiosc... Some highlights in this thread: 1/Ngithub.comGitHub - PacificBiosciences/aardvark: A tool for sniffing out the differences in vari-AntsA tool for sniffing out the differences in vari-Ants - PacificBiosciences/aardvark 13217
Jon Belyeu @jonbelyeu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I 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:biorxiv.orgComplex structural variant visualization with SVTopoStructural 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... 1138
Reposted by Jon BelyeuChris Saunders @ctsa.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Great to see that sawfish, our new HiFi SV caller, is accepted for publication in Bioinformatics! Sawfish emphasizes local haplotype modeling to improve SV representation and genotyping in both single and joint-sample analysis. Advance-access article now available: (1/n) doi.org/10.1093/bioi...doi.orgSawfish: Improving long-read structural variant discovery and genotyping with local haplotype modelingAbstractMotivation. Structural variants (SVs) play an important role in evolutionary and functional genomics but are challenging to characterize. High-accu 24324
Jon Belyeu @jonbelyeu.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Interesting comparison between long-read sequencing techs for metagenomics: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comCulture-Independent Meta-Pangenomics Enabled by Long-Read Metagenomics Reveals Novel Associations with Pediatric UndernutritionThe human gut microbiome is associated with various forms of acute malnutrition, but current microbiome approaches are limited in resolution, often focused on c 000
Reposted by Jon BelyeuMatt Holt @holtjma.bsky.social · 11/12/2024“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.comGitHub - PacificBiosciences/pb-StarPhase: A phase-aware pharmacogenomic diplotyper for PacBio datasetsA phase-aware pharmacogenomic diplotyper for PacBio datasets - PacificBiosciences/pb-StarPhase 21916
Reposted by Jon BelyeuDan Portik @dportik.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Another very insightful paper on #methylation and long-read sequencing by @gangfang.bsky.social, describing some important but frequently overlooked caveats. Gang provides a fantastic summary in his post, but here's my take too😅: 0136
Jon Belyeu @jonbelyeu.bsky.social · 13/11/2024#ASHG2024 was a blast. I had great discussions with friends and #pacbio collaborators, presented a poster on my new tool SVTopo, welcomed #PacBioVega to the world, and realized than I'm a bigger fan of One Republic than I knew before. Excited for next time! 1111
Reposted by Jon BelyeuDan Portik @dportik.bsky.social · 07/11/2024It's official, #PacBio has launched a new benchtop sequencer! Quick summary of the new Vega system: - instrument = $169k - consumables = $1100 per run - output = 60 Gbp, 24 hr run time This is the #HiFi sequencer #microbiology labs have been asking for. www.pacb.com/press_releas...pacb.comPacBio Unveils the Vega System, a New Sequencing Platform Bringing HiFi to the Benchtop - PacBioPriced at just $169,000 Vega is designed to make highly accurate long-read sequencing accessible to any laboratory Translations: Japanese | Chinese | Korean MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 06, 2024 (GLO... 1228