Taking place June 21st – July 5th, 2026, in Shenzhen, BGI Group extends a warm welcome to your participation in the course of Applicable Smart Medical Technology Training Program for "Belt and Road" Countries. Organized by BGI College, this 15-day program is designed for mid- to senior-level prof...
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Choices, conviction and curiosity. These are the driving forces that have taken Wyclif Odago from the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya to be a Project Operation Specialist at BGI Bioverse and a PhD candidate in Botany at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. As the fi...
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On March 17, a Dutch biotechnology delegation, organized by the Netherlands Innovation Network China and led by Antoni Mandemaker, Deputy Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Guangzhou, visited the BGI Center, the global headquarters of BGI Group. The delegation engaged in high-lev...
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1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. With 21 zeros, it’s safe to say that’s a big number. Now try multiplying that number by 175 times. Based on research from the International Data Corporation (IDC), that number represents the expected sum of the world’s data by 2025. According to David Reinse...
Revered for its beauty and diversity, the orchid is a plant that blooms in every colour of the rainbow apart from true black, and has 25,000-30,000 different species, of which at least 10,000 can be found in the tropics1. Its name is derived from the Greek word orc...
Shenzhen, August 3, 2022 – BGI’s leading global position in life science research has been recognized in the 2022 Nature Index. BGI rose two places to 8th in the world among corporate institutions for its contribution to life science research and was the only Chinese corporate among the top 10....
A persistent or worsening cough. Bloody or rust-colored phlegm. Hoarseness. Chest pain. Shortness of breath. These are some common symptoms of lung cancer1, the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide2. In 2020, there were more than 2.2 million new...
Towering as high as 80 metres and forming much of the tropical rainforest canopy in Southeast Asia, dipterocarp trees – or the two-winged fruit tree – are distinguished by their leathery, evergreen leaves, clustered, fragrant flowers, and aromatic resins.A winged seed of tropical dipterocarp tree on...
This month marks the 10th anniversary of GigaScience, BGI's flagship scientific journal published by their open access publishing division GigaScience Press. Born in an age of Big Data, GigaScience became the first journal to adopt a novel form of publication by providing all the suppo...