life Brief Report Comparative Analysis of PacBio and Oxford Nanopore Sequencing Technologies for Transcriptomic Landscape Identification of Penaeus monodon Zulema Udaondo 1 , Kanchana Sittikankaew 2, Tanaporn Uengwetwanit 2 , Thidathip Wongsurawat 1,3 , Chutima Sonthirod 4, Piroon Jenjaroenpun 1,3 , Wirulda Pootakham 4, Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri 2 and Intawat Nookaew 1,* 1 Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +1-501-686-6025; Fax: +1-501-603-1766 Citation: Udaondo, Z.; Sittikankaew, K.; Uengwetwanit, T.; Wongsurawat, Abstract: With the advantages that long-read sequencing platforms such as Pacific Biosciences T.; Sonthirod, C.; Jenjaroenpun, P.; (Menlo Park, CA, USA) (PacBio) and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (Oxford, UK) (ONT) can offer, Pootakham, W.; Karoonuthaisiri, N.; various research fields such as genomics and transcriptomics can exploit their benefits. Selecting an Nookaew, I. Comparative Analysis of appropriate sequencing platform is undoubtedly crucial for the success of the research outcome, PacBio and Oxford Nanopore thus there is a need to compare these long-read sequencing platforms and evaluate them for specific Sequencing Technologies for research questions.