PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, today announced the creation of the Consortium for Long Read Sequencing (CoLoRS) that aims to accelerate the utility of long-read human genome datasets.
CoLoRS is an open coalition of international researchers focused on creating a comprehensive database of frequency information for all classes of human variation identified using long-read human whole-genome sequencing. High quality long-read data can characterize genetic variation inaccessible to short-read sequencing.
As such, CoLoRS plans to critically complement existing databases, help improve the discovery of pathogenic variation, and advance the understanding of the genomic underpinnings of rare disease, where more than half of cases remain unexplained even after short-read genome sequencing.
The founding members of CoLoRS are leaders from highly respected research hospitals, universities, and laboratories from around the world. Pre-existing datasets provided by consortium members will comprise the initial set of genomes, which will be processed and cataloged using trusted and standardized analysis pipelines.
The resulting data will be housed and accessible via National Human Genome Research Institute's (NHGRI) Analysis, Visualization and Informatics Lab-space (AnVIL) which is a cloud-based genomic data sharing and analysis platform. CoLoRS has been awarded supporting funds by the National Institutes of Health Office of Data Science Strategy and NHGRI to help fund cloud-based variant calling and for utilization of the database for NHGRI-funded initiatives such as GREGoR and the All of Us Research Program.
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