SMRT sequencing is the new fast growing sequencing technology with many benefits. Few of the benefits which can be stated here are:-
1) Produces very long and highly accurate DNA sequences from individual umamplified molecules
2) can also show where methylated bases occur, thus provides functional information about DNA molecule.
3) Because the reaction involves use of DNA polymerase enzyme and as only single molecule is imaged in this technology, therefore there is no signal degradation over long time.
(Roberts etal. Genome Biology 2013, 14:405