Monthly Archives: April 2023

Introducing a New Generation of Sequencers – #2 The AVITI

The DNA Tech Core recently implemented a new short-read sequencing technology. The AVITI sequencer from Element Biosciences provides medium-scale sequencing at higher quality and significantly lower costs compared to Illumina sequencers. While the sequencing chemistry is very different, the instrument

Posted in News

Introducing a New Generation of Sequencers – #1 The Revio

Two new sequencers have been installed in the Genome Center, both deliver highest read accuracies: The PacBio REVIO long-read sequencer and the Element Biosciences AVITI short-read sequencer.  The PacBio REVIO reduces sequencing cost by two-thirds and increases the HiFi long-read

Posted in News

Pacbio REVIO Launch Party on March 12th

Please join us for the UC Davis Revio Launch Party on Wednesday, April 12th.  Expect great talks on genome assemblies and pan genomes – and of course an introduction to the new high-throughput sequencer. The UC Davis Genome Center just added the

Posted in News