Pacific Biosciences Releases Software Upgrade to Advance Bacterial DNA Methylation Analysis and De Novo Genome Assembly Projects

MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 22, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), provider of the PacBio® RS High Resolution Genetic Analyzer, today announced it has expanded the capabilities of its system through a major software upgrade, providing customers more tools for performing DNA base modification analysis and de novo genome assembly. Scientists from New England BioLabs (NEB) and Pacific Biosciences demonstrated the power of the new software in a paper this month titled "The Methylomes of Six Bacteria" in Nucleic Acids Research.

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