Pacific Biosciences of California Inc

NASDAQ:PACB

Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture and sale of an integrated platform for genetic analysis. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California and currently employs 728 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2010-10-27. The firm designs, develops and manufactures advanced sequencing solutions to help scientists and clinical researchers resolve genetically complex problems. The firm has developed its Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) technology, which enables single molecule, real-time detection of nucleic acid sequences, to address many of the limitations of previous sequencing technologies. The Company’s products include Sequel, Sequel II and Sequel IIe instruments and SMRT Cell 8M, which together can sequence up to approximately eight million deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules simultaneously, and the previous generation Sequel instrument and Sequel SMRT Cell 1M, which together conduct, monitor, and analyze single molecule biochemical reactions in real time. The firm's Sequel IIe System increases computational capacity and is designed to enable customers to generate PacBio HiFi reads.