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PacBio runs in ENA

EMBL-EBI / European Nucleotide Archive

945K
runs · 2026-07-20
Gompertz
best-fit model
1.1M
projected 2027
19K73K280K1.1M20142016201820202022202420261.1M 2027
Gompertz (S-curve) fitbest fit (AICc)N(t) = L·e^{−e^{−k(t − t₀)}}
carrying capacity L 1.7Msteepness k 0.193 / yrinflection t₀ 2024 0.9609forecast 1.1M by 2027

Forecast = 10% of the 12-yr record (1.2 yr ahead). Anchored on the latest value; levels off toward L ≈ 1.7M.

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.

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
Dateruns
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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