Company Profile - Pacific Biosciences of California Inc

Introduction

Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (Pacific Biosciences) designs, develops, and manufactures sequencing instruments for solving complex genetic abnormalities. The company’s product portfolio comprises of proprietary phospholinked nucleotides, sequencing systems, analytical software and consumables. Its products enable the identification of novel genes; characterization of alternatively spliced isoforms in prominent gene families, and targeted sequencing, and provide real-time kinetic data for characterization of epigenomes. Pacific Biosciences' products are based on its novel single molecule, real-time (SMRT) sequencing technology. It caters to the scientific and research communities, government, and commercial entities. The company has subsidiaries in the US, Canada, Japan, Germany, China, Singapore, and the UK. Pacific Biosciences is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the US.