PacBio Symposium SMRT Draw Terms and Conditions

Pacific Biosciences SMRT® Draw

ELIGIBILITY

Participation in the Pacific Biosciences SMRT Draw is open to registered attendees of PacBio Day Edinburgh. The SMRT Draw begins on Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. (local time) and ends on Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 4:00 p.m.  

Participants can enter to win ONE (1) of the TWO (2) prizes described below (Prize #1 or Prize #2). To enter, participants must complete a SMRT Draw Card entry form, provided by Pacific Biosciences at the PacBio Day Edinburgh event, and return it to a PacBio employee in person by 3:00 p.m. Participants must be professionally engaged in laboratory-based scientific research to enter. Only ONE (1) SMRT Draw Card entry form per registered attendee of PacBio Day Edinburgh will be accepted.  

A complete SMRT Draw Card entry form must include: 

(1)    the participant’s full name, email address, telephone number;

(2)    the name of the participant’s institution or company; and

(3)    a descriptive title for the proposed project.

SMRT Draw Cards will be subjected to a qualification review to make sure the project is suitable with respect to the scope of the prizes offered (listed below).  All submitted SMRT Draw Card entry forms, whether complete/qualified or not, become the property of the Sponsors.  

By entering, the participant gives permission to the Sponsors to contact the participant regarding Pacific Biosciences’ products and services, whether or not the participant is the winner of the SMRT Draw. 

 

WINNER AND NOTIFICATION 

For each prize, ONE (1) winner will be selected in a random drawing from all qualified SMRT Draw Card entry forms for that prize received by the 3:00 p.m. deadline.  Thus, there will be a total of TWO (2) winners, ONE (1) for each prize. The drawings will take place on Thursday, February 7, 2019 at approximately 4:00 p.m. 

The winners will be announced at the end of the event, and/or notified by email within approximately TWO (2) working days. 

 

PRIZE DESCRIPTION 

There will be a total of TWO (2) prizes awarded, consisting of:

- Prize #1: Iso-Seq® analysis for ONE (1) RNA sample using ONE (1) Sequel® SMRT® Cell 1M (including sequencing reagents) for a general survey of full-length isoforms in a transcriptome with moderate to high expression levels. Edinburgh Genomics will prepare ONE (1) SMRTbell® library from a high-quality RNA sample provided by the winner (at least 5 ug total RNA) and return raw subreads in BAM format and full-length transcript sequences in fasta format.

- Prize #2: De novo genome analysis for ONE (1) DNA sample using THREE (3) Sequel SMRT Cells 1M (including sequencing reagents) for a genome from 200 Mb to 500 Mb. Edinburgh Genomics will prepare ONE (1) SMRTbell® library from a high-quality, high molecular weight DNA sample provided by the winner (at least 10 ug DNA) and return raw subreads in BAM format, a de novo genome assembly in fasta format, and an assessment of the assembly using BUSCO and QUAST.

 

RESTRICTIONS APPLY

Each winner is required to provide the high quality nucleic acid sample for the selected Prize by April 30, 2019. The results of the sequencing project will be returned to each winner by June 30, 2019. 

 

SPONSORS 

1.    Pacific Biosciences
2.    Edinburgh Genomics