BGISEQ-500, the first proprietary desktop high-throughput sequencing system, was launched globally.

Yuan Longping, Zhu Lihuang and Wang Jian signed the Agreement on the Development of China's Super Hybrid Rice Genome Research. The rice genome project was launched.

BGI teamed up with scientists from over 20 countries to complete the large-scale bird genome project, and 28 first-phase research results were published in several scientific journals including Science.

BGI cooperated with other institutions to successfully develop the Ebola virus nucleic acid detection reagent.

BGI deciphered the pathogen genome of the German lethal E. coli outbreak and published the research result online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The research result of human intestinal bacteria genome was published in Nature as a cover story.