Anyone have experience with the new Sequel chemistry and software?

[GenoMax]

Im the product manager for the Sequel system.

So the burning question on everyone's mind. When do we get to see real data from Sequel in wild?

[mbadgett]

Its not recorded as we have not been recording talks at our user group meetings.

[nucacidhunter]

I cannot remember any tweet on your talk and wonder if it's recording is available on line for viewing.

[mbadgett]

- the Sequel platform has not actually been released yet. It's still in development.

Im the product manager for the Sequel system and gave the morning talk at UGM highlighting our latest results on the system. Apologies if I mislead you on the status of our system. The Sequel system has been released and started shipping end of last year, see our Q1 financial Press Release

[spore]

I thought the new update finally released the platform for production use? Or is this still not the case? Will we have to wait until the end of year update until service providers start services?

Has anyone tested the performance of the new chemistry yet?

[Brian Bushnell]

I just attended the PacBio conference today. It was fun! Lots of interesting presentations (mainly about how PacBio achieves assemblies with L50's 1000x longer than Illumina). And I learned something that I was not aware of before - the Sequel platform has not actually been released yet. It's still in development.

Therefore - at present, yes, it is more practical to go with RSII for sequencing.

[spore]

PacBio announced an update to the Sequel software and chemistry about a month ago. Have any of the Sequel users here had any experience with it? Does it solve the read length and loading issues? Or is it still more practical to go with a RSII for sequencing.

Thank you