65th NextgenBUG Meeting in Edinburgh, May 30th

Edinburgh Genomics is hosting a new edition of the Next Generation Bioinformatics User Group meeting (NextGenBUG). This new edition, the 65th meeting, will take place on May 30th from 12:30 to 17:00 at the University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings campus (Murchison House, Room 1.19). As with previous meetings, this event aims to bring together bioinformaticians across Scotland to discuss the…

Edinburgh Genomics acquires a PacBio Revio System

Edinburgh Genomics has recently acquired the new Revio system, a state-of-the-art long-read sequencer developed by Pacific Biosciences (PacBio). This acquisition has been made possible through a significant grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The Revio system can read long sections of genetic material, enabling scientists to study genomes and transcriptomes in much greater detail. It represents…