Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. is a Menlo Park-based company that offers innovative solutions to resolve genetically complex problems. Its areas of focus include designing, developing, and manufacturing sequencing systems. The company's product portfolio comprises sequencing systems, consumable products like single molecule real-time (SMRT) cells, and various reagent kits intended for specific workflow. The reagent kits are used for converting DNA into SMRTbell double-stranded DNA library formats, consisting of molecular biology reagents such as ligase, buffers, and exonucleases. The company's binding kits, which involve modified DNA polymerase, aid in the binding of SMRTbell libraries to the polymerase prior to sequencing. The sequencing kits contain reagents necessary for on-instrument, real-time sequencing, including the phospholinked nucleotides. Pacific Biosciences of California caters to research institutions, academic institutions, commercial laboratories, genome centers, public health labs, hospitals and clinical research institutes, pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations, and agricultural companies, among others. To reach a wider customer base, the firm markets its products through a direct sales force in North America and Europe and distributes its products through its partners in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. In 2000, the company was incorporated under the name Nanofluidics, Inc. and was later renamed Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. in 2005. As of today, the company has a development and commercialization agreement with Invitae Corporation.
Pacific Biosciences of California's ticker is PACB
The company's shares trade on the NASDAQ stock exchange
They are based in Menlo Park, California
There are 201-500 employees working at Pacific Biosciences of California
It is pacb.com
Pacific Biosciences of California is in the Healthcare sector
Pacific Biosciences of California is in the Biotechnology industry
The following five companies are Pacific Biosciences of California's industry peers:
- NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.