Plant and Animal Sciences SMRT Grant Program

The Plant and Animal Sciences SMRT Grant Program by Pacific Biosciences offers free high-quality sequencing to researchers studying diverse life forms. Open to individuals engaged in scientific research, the program invites applicants to submit proposals outlining their research benefits from HiFi sequencing. Grants are awarded multiple times a year, with a simple application process. This initiative aims to advance scientific discovery across various life science disciplines, ensuring broad participation in groundbreaking genomic research.

Be Bold - Sequence with Confidence
With Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing you can explore even the most complex genomes with confidence. A reference-quality genome and phased haplotypes will help you uncover new insights and propel your science.
Sequence Any Plant or Animal on the Tree of Life!
What Is A Smrt Grant?
Our grant programs support outstanding research that advances scientific discovery by providing free highly accurate sequencing. For many years, PacBio has offered researchers the opportunity to win free PacBio sequencing through the SMRT Grant program. PacBio provides multiple grants per year and to date we have given more than 20 grants of varying award sizes.
Who Does The Sequencing?
For each SMRT Grant, PacBio partners with one of our service providers or Certified Service Providers to offer free consumables, library prep, sequencing, and initial bioinformatic analyses for free.
How Can I Win A Smrt Grant?
All you have to do is tell us how your research will benefit from HiFi sequencing. Submission windows open throughout the year and the process is easy — just a short abstract and some contact info. We typically notify finalists and winners within two months of submission.
What Types of Grants Are Offered?
Grants are offered across all areas of life science, so whether you are studying tiny microbial genomes, giant plant polyploids, exotic endangered species, or the uncharted regions of the human genome, we have a grant for you!
Read the full rules here.

Eligibility

Participation in the Pacific Biosciences (PacBio®) 2024 Plant and Animal Sciences SMRT Grant Program is open to individual entrants (excluding, in each case, vendors) meeting these eligibility requirements: Entrants must be professionally engaged in laboratory-based scientific research and have attained at least the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence (entrants must, in any event, be at least 18 years of age).

Ineligibility

Employees, officers, directors, agents, representatives and independent contractors of the Sponsors or their respective affiliates or subsidiaries, together with their immediate family members and members of the same households (whether related or not) are not eligible to participate.Also ineligible are residents of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria or any country subject to U.S. embargo; any persons (including businesses, research institutions, government and private organizations, individuals, and other types of legal persons )on the U.S. government’s Denied Persons List, Specially Designated Nationals list, Entity List, Unverified List or any other similar list maintained by the U.S. government or any other government to whose laws the Sponsors or their respective affiliates or subsidiaries, the Grant Program or such person is subject, and all individuals employed thereby or otherwise associated therewith; and  any persons for whom it would be illegal to participate in or win the Grant Program, or with or to whom it would be illegal for the Sponsors to interact or award the prize as contemplated herein.