Pacific Biosciences and Harvard Medical School Scientists Decode Genome of Haitian Cholera Pathogen

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scientists from Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ:PACB) and Harvard Medical School have successfully employed single molecule, real-time (SMRT™) DNA sequencing technology to rapidly characterize the pathogen responsible for the recent deadly cholera epidemic in Haiti. Published online Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the results provide the first whole genome sequence analysis and most detailed genetic profile to date of the Haitian Vibrio cholerae outbreak strain.