Pacific Biosciences of California Inc.

PacBio is a US-based biotechnology company, founded in 2004 and based on research at Cornell University. Notably, the company is one of the two major providers of third-generation sequencing systems.

Pacific biosciences develops single molecule real time sequencing (SMRT), based on the properties of zero-mode waveguides, to provide real-time analysis of biomolecules with single-molecule resolution.