Standards

With advanced genetic reading, writing andstorage, multi-disciplinary and new biological research system and abundantapplication cases, BGI has established extensive collaborations with domesticand international standardization organizations, industry-leading researchinstitutions and enterprises, aiming at building the most influential standardsand databases in the field of life science, and promoting the development ofhuman health services and technology applications, based on “big platform”,“big data”, “big science”, “big industry” and “big livelihood project”.

In2013, BGI was approved to be one of the National Mirror Committees in China ofthe International Organization for Standardization / Biotechnology Committee(ISO / TC 276). In 2018, Mr. Xu Xun, CEO of BGI Group and Director of BGIResearch, was elected as the director of International Society for Biologicaland Environmental Repositories (ISBER), China. In the same year, Mr. Xu Xun waselected as the vice chairperson of ISO / TC 276 and Mr. Yin Ye, CEO of BGIGenomics Co., Ltd, was elected as the president of Shenzhen Association of Standardization.

Up toDecember 2019, BGI has participated in drafting and publishing of 83 standards.Among them, there are 10 national standards, 1 professional standard, 18provincial standards, 2 professional guidelines, 15 association standards, and37 company standards, filling gaps in the industry. At the same time, BGI hascooperated with National Institutes for Food and Drug Control of China andNational Institute of Metrology of China to develop a plenty of nationalreference materials of high-throughput gene sequencing.

Inaddition, in 2018, BGI led the establishment of the National InformationTechnology Standardization Committee Biometric Sub-Committee (SAC / TC28 /SC37) Genome Identification Working Group. In 2019, in accordance with therequirements of the “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area DevelopmentPlanning Outline”, China National Gene Bank and BGI initiated the establishmentof the “Belt and Road” Life Science Economy Alliance. In October 2019, representativesfrom more than 70 government departments, research institutions and leadingenterprises of countries and regions along “Belt and Road” attended the “Belt and Road” regionalinternational standards conference to discuss the establishment of “Belt andRoad” regional international standard platform and relevant work based on “Beltand Road” Life Science Economy Alliance.

As oneof the "Iconic researches and Leading standards" strategies, BGIattaches great importance to standardization construction. In 2017, BGIsuccessfully passed the on-site acceptance as the first comprehensivestandardization pilot in gene industry in Guangdong Province. In 2018, BGI wasapproved to be the first national standardization pilot of genetic healthservice industry. In 2019, BGI Genomics Co., Ltd. was rated as a A-level enterprisein R&D and standardization of Shenzhen.

Patents

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Curiosity, Application of Knowledge, Working for the Betterment of Mankind.

Standards

Curiosity, Application of Knowledge,
Working for the Betterment of Mankind.