Get your data faster: GIFS at USask introduces AVITI short-read sequencing services
June 25, 2025
Global Institute for Food Security
The Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) is now providing short-read sequencing services utilizing the AVITI sequencer from Element Biosciences.
The AVITI is the latest addition to GIFS’ comprehensive suite of short- and long-read sequencing technologies.
Utilizing AVITI, GIFS’ team delivers cost-effective, highly accurate data — supported by automated bioinformatics and visualizations pipelines — with faster turnaround times.
The AVITI is suitable for a wide range of applications, from small-scale projects to those demanding high-throughput sequencing workflows. Today, GIFS is supporting whole-genome sequencing, RNA-seq, genotyping, and single-cell sequencing on the instrument.
AVITI features:
• Compatible with library preparations designed for other short-read technologies, including Illumina.
• Flexible read lengths: Up to 2×300 bp reads.
• Avidity sequencing (sequencing by binding chemistry) delivers high quality data: Most bases will have a Q-score of 40 or greater — or less than one error in 10,000 bases.
GIFS is a premier platform for omics technology, providing world-class genomics, transcriptomics, and bioinformatics services to researchers and organizations across diverse sectors.
Complementing its short-read capacity, GIFS — a PacBio Certified Service Provider — also provides automated library preparation and genomic analyses using PacBio’s Revio system for long-read sequencing.
For more on genomics, transcriptomics, and bioinformatics services at GIFS, see our Services and Solutions guide below.
Download: Services and Solutions at GIFS (PDF)
Questions? Contact partnerwithus@gifs.ca
Thank you to the Global Institute for Food Security for submitting this article and photo.