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PacBio runs in ENA

EMBL-EBI / European Nucleotide Archive

966K
runs · 2026-10-19
S-curve
best-fit model
983K
projected 2027
19K71K264K983K2014201620182020202220242026983K 2027
Logistic (S-curve) fitbest fit (AICc)N(t) = L / (1 + e^{−k(t − t₀)})
carrying capacity L 997Ksteepness k 0.706 / yrmidpoint t₀ 2021R² 0.9749forecast 983K by 2027

Forecast = 10% of the 12-yr record (1.2 yr ahead). Anchored on the latest value; levels off toward L ≈ 997K.

Cumulative public ENA runs on Pacific Biosciences SMRT long-read platforms (RS, Sequel, Revio). The jump after 2020 tracks the shift to highly accurate HiFi (CCS) reads and the high-throughput Revio. Counted live from the ENA Portal API by instrument_platform=PACBIO_SMRT.

How this is tracked
SourceEMBL-EBI / European Nucleotide Archive
Update cadenceweekly
Live endpointhttps://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform%3D%22PACBIO_SMRT%22&format=json
Parsejson · count
Historical sources
All data points (21)
Dateruns
2026-10-19965,917
2026-10-12965,655
2026-10-05959,574
2026-09-28958,789
2026-09-21958,479
2026-09-14958,357
2026-09-07958,199
2026-08-24956,304
2026-08-17953,904
2026-08-03949,530
2026-07-27946,018
2026-07-20945,447
2026-07-13944,488
2026-07-06942,670
2026-06-25940,501
2024-12-31816,427
2022-12-31666,117
2020-12-31101,200
2018-12-3166,908
2016-12-3140,488
2014-12-3119,147

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