The Ten Thousand Bird Genome Project will complete the interpretation of all existing bird genomes in the world in four stages: order, family, genus, and species, and solve a series of major scientific problems in species origin, evolution and bird biology. Birds are the most differentiated and the...
The Ten Thousand Plant Genome Project (10KP) aims to sequence the genomes of 10,000 plants through extensive global cooperation, comprehensive resource collection, and systematic scientific design and research to promote biodiversity, understand plant evolution, and ecological protection and related...
The Ten Thousand Fish Genome Project (Fish10K) aims to construct reference genomes of 10,000 representative fish species to study the evolution and development of vertebrates based on the big data of fish genomics. Fish are the largest and oldest species of vertebrates. There are currently more tha...
Yeast genome Sc2.0 project aims to build the world first eukaryotic organism from scratch. While this project can help us to understand the modern organism on a whole new level, it also promotes the potential applications in many fields, such as biomanufacture and bio-medicine. Detailed introduct...
The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) project aims to map all cells in the human body in order to better understand human health and conduct disease diagnosis, monitoring and treatment research. As one of the participants of the Human Cell Atlas Project, BGI is committed to research and development of new gene...
On November 10, 2020, Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital and BGI Research published a titled “Initial whole-genome sequencing and analysis of the host genetic” in the internationally renowned academic journal “Cell Discovery”. The research results of "contribution to COVID-19 severity and suscep...