Singapore, Oct. 14 -- PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, has announced that its HiFi sequencing technology has been selected as the primary platform for the Korean Pangenome Reference Project, a landmark national initiative led by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), National Institute of Health (KNIH).

The project will generate the first large-scale, telomere-to-telomere quality reference genomes representing the Korean population and integrate the data into the global Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC). By building a more inclusive and comprehensive reference, the initiative is expected to accelerate discovery of population-specific variants, help improve insig...