Erik Holmlin, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of BioNano Genomics, commented, "We are pleased to see acceptance of over 30 posters and workshops related to BioNano's Irys System at this year's PAG conference. The overwhelming interest from researchers in our next-generation mapping system underscores the need and importance for physical genome maps in the area of evolutionary, animal, crop, and breeding biology. With BioNano's technology, researchers have access to the most complete and comprehensive view of genomes to date. Collectively, the scientific results being presented at the meeting demonstrate tremendous strides in the progress of researchers working with large, complex genomes of plants and animals, an area where our technology provides very unique and complementary advantages to other NGS technologies used otherwise."