Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB) , popularly known as PacBio,recently announced the PureTarget repeat expansion panel, a new approach that makes it possible to thoroughly examine 20 genes linked to severe neurological conditions, including difficult-to-sequence genes with tandem repeat expansions, is now possible. In addition to cutting down on the amount of time required to find disease-causing variations and the methylation signatures that go along with them, the new long-read process can eliminat ...