He noted that when SARS broke out in 2003, scientists took five months to decode the pathogen as second-generation sequencing had yet to be developed.

他指出，2003年SARS爆发时，由于第二代测序尚未开发，科学家们花了五个月的时间来解码病原体。

WuXi NextCODE was formed in 2015 after Shanghai-based contract research giant WuXi AppTec acquired genomic analysis firm NextCode Health, a spinoff from Reykjavik, Iceland-based Decode Genetics.

Private, public sectors join forces to unleash potential of high-tech to create huge economic impactArtificial intelligence is helping China decode the universe for the world.

The advent of 5G and other technological leaps like artificial intelligence will exert a bigger impact on smart marketing through a more thorough and stratified analysis of user preferences based on algorithms that decode customer activities, said Maggie Wang, president of data marketing technology firm AdMaster.