The field of
genomics has revolutionized our understanding of human genetics.
基因组学领域已经彻底改变了我们对人类遗传学的理解。
Researchers are using
genomics to identify new targets for cancer therapy.
研究人员正在利用基因组学来识别癌症治疗的新靶点。
Genomics can help us understand the genetic basis of complex diseases like diabetes.
基因组学可以帮助我们理解糖尿病等复杂疾病的遗传基础。
The application of
genomics in agriculture has led to the development of more resilient crops.
基因组学在农业中的应用导致了更耐受作物的开发。
Personalized medicine is an area where
genomics is having a significant impact.
个性化医疗是基因组学产生重大影响的一个领域。
Genomics has enabled scientists to sequence entire genomes at unprecedented speeds.
基因组学使科学家能够以前所未有的速度测序整个基因组。
The Human Genome Project was a landmark achievement in the field of
genomics.
人类基因组计划是基因组学领域的一个里程碑式的成就。
Ethical considerations are crucial in the field of
genomics, especially concerning privacy and data sharing.
在基因组学领域，伦理考虑至关重要，尤其是在隐私和数据共享方面。
Genomics has potential applications in forensics, helping to solve crimes through DNA analysis.
基因组学在法医学中有潜在的应用，通过DNA分析帮助解决犯罪。
The integration of
genomics with other biological sciences is leading to new insights into biological processes.
将基因组学与其他生物科学相结合，正带来对生物过程的新见解。
Aided by technology, Chinese genomics firms such as BGI Group are helping farmers around the world increase crop yields and lower production costs.
在技术的帮助下，华大基因集团等中国基因组学公司正在帮助世界各地的农民提高作物产量，降低生产成本。
BGI Bioverse, a subsidiary of Shenzhen, Guangdong province-based life sciences and genomics company BGI Group, is working with Yunnan University to promote genomics technology-enabled perennial rice cultivation, which reduces labor-intensive tasks and lowers the cost of production of farmers.
广东省深圳市生命科学和基因组学公司华大基因集团的子公司华大生物科技有限公司正在与云南大学合作，推广基因组学技术支持的多年生水稻种植，这减少了劳动密集型任务，降低了农民的生产成本。
As a leading company that exports genomics technology, BGI Group said it recognizes the importance of making technological advancements available to everyone through scientific sharing to benefit humanity.
作为一家出口基因组学技术的领先公司，华大基因集团表示，它认识到通过科学共享让每个人都能获得技术进步以造福人类的重要性。
The Chinese company is expanding the possibilities of genomics with the quality and delivery of data, as scientists often look for one in a million plants that have a combination of characteristics to help it succeed in becoming a productive species in an agricultural and food production sense.
这家中国公司正在通过数据的质量和交付来扩大基因组学的可能性，因为科学家们经常寻找具有多种特征的植物中的一种，以帮助它成功地成为农业和食品生产意义上的生产物种。
Wang from the Northeast Agricultural University said that exports of genomics technology by Chinese enterprises are beneficial for global scientific and technological advancement and a blessing for humanity.
东北农业大学的王说，中国企业出口基因组学技术，有利于全球科技进步，是人类的福祉。
Shenzhen, Guangdong province-based genomic sequencing company BGI Genomics supported a public welfare colorectal cancer screening project in Beijing, in an effort to deliver advanced screening technology to communities.
广东省深圳市华大基因测序公司支持北京的一个公益性癌症筛查项目，努力向社区提供先进的筛查技术。
Li Jie, senior sales director of BGI Genomics, said: "The progression from precancerous lesions to cancer usually takes 10 to 15 years.
华大基因高级销售总监李杰说：“从癌前病变发展到癌症通常需要10到15年的时间。
"Therefore, the company will expand its layout of rare diseases at the level of genomics," she said.
她说：“因此，该公司将在基因组学层面扩大罕见病的布局。”。
The screening institute will be the first scientific research organization in China that focuses on cutting-edge technological innovations in the early screening of cancer, and is committed to breakthroughs in the research and development of gene multi-dimensional genomics to accelerate the application and practice of screening technology.
筛查机构将是国内首家专注于癌症早期筛查前沿技术创新的科研机构，致力于突破基因多维基因组学的研发，加快筛查技术的应用和实践。
Since its debut on the opening day of the expo, NovaSeq X Plus has attracted extensive interest, resulting in contracts signed with companies including JM DNA, Sequanta, Novogene, Berry Genomics, Annoroad, Nanjing Jiangbei New Area National Healthcare Big Data (Eastern) Center and New Horizon Health, said the company.
NovaSeq X Plus自博览会开幕当天首次亮相以来，就吸引了广泛的兴趣，并与JM DNA、Sequanta、Novogene、Berry Genomics、安诺路、南京江北新区国家医疗大数据（东部）中心和新地平线健康等公司签订了合同。
Currently, there are numerous large-scale genomics research on Western cancer patients.
目前，对西方癌症患者进行了大量大规模的基因组学研究。
However, the genomics panorama of Asian cancer populations remained a blank.
然而，亚洲癌症人群的基因组学全景仍然是一片空白。
From January 11 to 13, a model of BGI Genomics' Huo-Yan Air Laboratory, was showcased at the China Pavilion of the Dubai World Expo.
1月11日至13日，华大基因霍燕空气实验室的模型在迪拜世博会中国馆展出。
With the continuing spread of COVID-19 worldwide, the Huo-Yan Air Laboratory, which can be set up anywhere in a very short time, was created by BGI Genomics for dealing with the pandemic.
随着新冠肺炎在全球范围内的持续传播，华大基因创建了火眼空气实验室，该实验室可以在很短的时间内在任何地方建立，以应对疫情。
Chen Yue, Global Manager of Medicine at BGI Genomics, said, "This has provided BGI Genomics with a key opportunity to step onto the world stage.
华大基因全球医学部经理陈悦表示：“这为华大基因登上世界舞台提供了一个关键的机会。
"Since the outbreak of COVID-19, BGI Genomics has been working closely with Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health and established the Saudi Huo-Yan Lab to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
“自新冠肺炎爆发以来，华大基因一直与沙特阿拉伯卫生部密切合作，并成立了沙特Huo-Yan实验室，以抗击新冠肺炎大流行。
"BGI Genomics provided a full set of nucleic acid detection solutions and a virus sequencing platform to Saudi health authorities, helping the country establish a monitoring capability for COVID's mutated strains.
“华大基因向沙特卫生当局提供了全套核酸检测解决方案和病毒测序平台，帮助该国建立了对新冠病毒变异株的监测能力。
The Huo-Yan Air Laboratory, jointly designed and developed by BGI Genomics, the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University and Shanghai Etopia Building Technology, has been acclaimed by the design community.
由华大基因、同济大学设计与创新学院、上海伊顿建筑技术有限公司联合设计开发的霍炎空气实验室，受到设计界的一致好评。
By June 2021, BGI Genomics had built more than 90 Huo-Yan Laboratories in 30 countries and regions worldwide, providing in the aggregate the results of up to one million COVID tests per day.
截至2021年6月，华大基因已在全球30个国家和地区建立了90多个霍炎实验室，每天总共提供多达100万次新冠病毒检测结果。
BGI Genomics continues to export the Huo-Yan Lab solution worldwide, contributing to the battle against the further spread of the disease.
华大基因继续向全球出口霍炎实验室的解决方案，为对抗疾病的进一步传播做出贡献。
Founded in August 2017, the company grew out of the tumor business unit of Berry Genomics, one of China's largest companies in genetic testing, and has since established a wide range of genetic testing products and services for tumor patients and high-risk groups.
该公司成立于2017年8月，源自中国最大的基因检测公司之一贝瑞基因的肿瘤业务部门，自成立以来，已为肿瘤患者和高风险群体建立了广泛的基因检测产品和服务范围。
For instance, in March, BGI Genomics, a Shenzhen, Guangdong province-based genomics sequencing company, established Huo-Yan Laboratory, a standardized nucleic acid testing platform, in numerous countries around the world.
比如，3月，广东深圳的基因组学测序公司华大基因（BGI Genomics）在世界各地建立了标准化的核酸检测试验室“火眼实验室”（Huo-Yan Laboratory）。
To ensure the laboratory testing in destination countries was of top quality, BGI Genomics sent groups of scientists and technicians from Shenzhen and other cities to overseas laboratories, where they trained local medical professionals.
为确保目的地国家的实验室检测质量，BGIGenomics从深圳和其他城市派出了一批批科学家和技师前往海外实验室，培训当地医疗专业人员。
Li Ning, vice-president of BGI Group, the parent company of BGI Genomics, said: "To ensure the safety of our assignees, we tried our best to offer them as much support as possible, such as giving them available vaccines, sending preventative traditional Chinese medicine, and buying medical insurance for them.
华大集团副总裁、华大基因母公司高管李宁表示：“为了确保外派员工的安全，我们尽力为他们提供尽可能多的支持，比如提供可用疫苗、发送预防性的中药、为他们购买医疗保险等。”
The training was conducted by six young scientists from China's genomics sequencing company BGI Genomics and most had been fighting at the frontline of domestic epidemic prevention and control.
Testing kits of BGI land buy orders worldwide, herald diagnostics windfallBGI Genomics, a Chinese company specializing in DNA/gene sequencing, is offering to the pandemic-stricken world its testing kits that can detect the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, quickly and efficiently.
Chinese genomics company BGI Group signed an agreement with the Serbian government on Wednesday to help the European country build two coronavirus testing laboratories, as the pandemic continues to rage across the continent.
A subsidiary of BGI Group, BGI Genomics produced real-time fluorescent RT-PCR kits for specific testing of novel coronavirus.
Chinese genomics firm Genetron Health announced on Wednesday that its semiconductor high-throughput sequencer GENETRON S5 had been approved by Chinese regulators, becoming the first new-generation desktop semiconductor high-throughput sequencer for use in clinical applications in China.
Additionally, the project could result in the development of new genomics tools and technologies that are more affordable and broadly available to the scientific community.
MGI Tech Co Ltd, the manufacturing arm of China's genomics sequencing company Beijing Genomics Institute, announced on Thursday it has secured a first round of funding of more than $200 million.
Jiang Hui, chief operation officer of MGI, said the firm plans to use the fund to develop and manufacture new types of genetic sequencers, as well as market promotion of the genomics sequencing industry.
In 2017, BGI Genomics, China’s leading DNA sequencing provider, partnered with UK genomics software company Congenica to bring cutting-edge genome-based medicine to China’s healthcare system.
Agilent Technologies, an industry leader in diagnostics and genomics solutions, to further tap into China market with tailor-made initiatives to drive growth, making lower throughput but more automated solutions a key strategy in the country over the next few years, its senior executives told China Daily.
China is growing more quickly than all of its markets, with double-digit annual growth, said Charmian Cher, director of Clinical Strategy for Asia-Pacific, Diagnostics and Genomics Group, Agilent.
Chinese genomics giant BGI, previously known as Beijing Genomics Institute, officially confirmed on Wednesday that the company will not pay compensation for a boy with mental disabilities and physical deformities in Hunan province.
Xu Qian, secretary of the board of Shenzhen-listed BGI Genomics Co Ltd, said the boy's abnormality was out of their testing range.
Chinese genomics giant BGI, known as the Beijing Genomics Institute previously, announced on Tuesday that seven of its executives have decided to increase their equity holdings in the company, after a two-day stock slump triggered by a series of reports attacking its credibility.
"The deal is the company's second major partnership in Ireland, following work of WuXi NextCODE, a tech firm acquired by WuXi Biologics' parent firm, WuXi AppTec, with Genomics Medicine Ireland.
”The deal is the company’s second major partnership in Ireland, following on from WuXi NextCODE’s work with Genomics Medicine Ireland.
"We're the right partner for Chinese industry players because Thermo Fisher is a leading company that has relevant technologies cutting across genomics, proteomics and metabolomics," he said.
(Genomics is the study of structure, function, evolution and mapping of genes or genetic material; proteomics is the study of the set of proteins that are in, or can be expressed by, a cell, tissue or organism; and metabolomics is the study of substances called metabolites formed in, or necessary for, metabolism.
Located in the Guangzhou International Bio-Island, the 600 square meter center showcases its products and services in genomics, proteomics and metabolomics.
com International Ltd and genomics information company Wuxi Nextcode Genomics Inc. Wu Hai, a managing director for China, said the firm was encouraged by the reform in the Chinese medical and healthcare sectors, which would boost innovation and generate more investment opportunities for Temasek.
Catherine D. Wood, company CEO and founder of ARK Investment Management, a US based investment institution, said the company now focused its research on five major technology areas for investment opportunities – including genomics sequencing, robotics and automation, energy storage and the next generation of internet, which included artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning and block chain technologies.
Baheal Pharm, a Chinese company that focuses on e-health, signed a partnership agreement with IBM in Beijing on Wednesday to introduce Watson for Genomics to medical institutions in China.
Watson for Genomics, a cognitive computing platform for more precise treatment of cancer patients, will help doctors to better identify mutations in the cancer that are potentially treatable and provide doctors with treatment options, according to IBM Watson Health.
"We hope application of Watson for Genomics can help doctors at grassroots improve treatment for patients.
"Lancelot Guo, vice-president of IBM (China), said Watson for Genomics has already been used in some countries, such as the United States, and he hopes patients in China can have new choices with the introduction of the technology in China.
Watson for Genomics, a cognitive computing platform for more precise treatment of cancer patients, will help doctors to better identify mutations in cancer that are potentially treatable and provide doctors with treatment options, according to IBM Watson Health.
"We hope the application of Watson for Genomics can help doctors at the grassroots improve treatment for patients.
"Lancelot Guo, vice-president of IBM (China), said Watson for Genomics has already been used in some countries, such as the United States, and he hopes patients in China can have new choices with the introduction of the technology.
But the company is facing fierce competition from a number of players, including BGI, one of the world's largest genomics organizations based in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.
BGI Genomics, China's leading DNA sequencing provider, said is partnering with United Kingdom genomics software company Congenica to bring cutting-edge genome-based medicine to China's healthcare system.
Sapientia is used by Genomics England in the UK 100,000 Genomes Project, a Department of Health-backed plan to sequence genomes from National Health Service patients with rare diseases.
Professor Mark Caulfield, chief scientist at Genome England, told China Daily: "Genomics has the potential to transform healthcare, predicting how well a person will respond to a treatment or finding one that will work best for them.
"Congenica's entry into China offers its researchers access to a huge population in a country investing heavily in genomics.
Last week, Yunfeng Capital, a fund backed by Jack Ma of Alibaba Group, invested $75 million in WuXi NextCODE, a contract genomics company headquartered in Shanghai.
WuXi NextCODE, a contract genomics company headquartered in Shanghai, announced on Tuesday that it received a $75 million capital injection, as China targets precision medicine using gene sequencing as a new focus for improving health and medical standards.
"Genomics is at the crossroads where data and biology meet," said Li Ge, chairman of WuXi NextCODE and its parent WuXi AppTec Inc. "Through its comprehensive capabilities for digitizing, managing and analyzing genome data, WuXi NextCODE is positioned to build an open access and capability platform that enables any organization or individual to benefit from genomic big data," he said.
Xie Xiaoliang, a pioneer of single-molecule biophysical chemistry, coherent Raman scattering microscopy and single-cell genomics, returned to Zhongguancun in 2018 after being a faculty member at Harvard University for two decades.
BGI Genomics, an integrated solutions provider of precision medicine based in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, said demand for respiratory tract specimen testing has increased amid the ongoing influenza outbreak.
"During the pandemic period, we ramped up production capacity, supply chains, logistics and laboratory testing in order to supply diagnostic products, equipment and other medical care to infected areas on time," said Yuan Ke, clinical research manager at BGI Genomics.
The Standardization Committee of China's State Administration for Market Regulation organized local companies and institutions including BGI, one of the world's largest genomics sequencing companies, the China National Institute of Standardization and other global experts in the field to co-develop the standard.
Modern technologies such as big data and AI offer diversified research methods to further explore TCM, while the application of metabolomics, genomics and transcriptomics made it possible to know TCM from a micro-level perspective.
The Huo Yan Air Lab, located inside the premises of Ethiopia's international flight hub, is administered by BGI Health Ethiopia, a subsidiary of China's biotech giant, BGI Genomics Co Ltd.
火眼空气实验室位于埃塞俄比亚国际机场内，由BGI Health Ethiopia运营，该公司是中国基因组学巨头BGI Genomics Co Ltd的子公司。
In the North American market, detection kits from BGI Genomics and Lupu Medical have received the Emergency Use Authorization issued by the United States Food and Drug Administration, indicating that their products can now be sold in the US clinical market.
Yin Ye, CEO of BGI Genomics, said: "China's growing capabilities in medical devices, especially IVD research and manufacturing in the last 10 years, have created a strong platform to deal with the boom in sudden demand.
The genomics sector is a good example of this, Wang added.
Companies such as BGI Group, Genetron Healthcare and Berry Genomics are not only pioneers in the genomics industry in China, but also are becoming highly recognized outside of the country.
Agreed Wu Jiayan, associate research fellow with the Beijing Institute of Genomics, which is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
"Camel milk is nutritious and helps to strengthen people's immune systems," said Zhang Wenbin, deputy director of the Inner Mongolia Institute of Camel Research, an institute focusing on camel genomics and pharmaceutics.
- BGI Genomics Co Ltd, China's genomics giant, reported surging profits in the first half (H1) of 2020 due to strong demand for its COVID-19 test kits.
Its net profit edged up 734.2 percent year-on-year to 1.65 billion yuan (about $240 million) in the January-June period, BGI Genomics said in its interim financial report filed with the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Driven by strong business growth, shares of BGI Genomics soared 4.59 percent to close at 145.72 yuan Thursday in Shenzhen.
Lenovo and the US tech giant Intel said in March that they have partnered with Shenzhen-based genomics sequencing company BGI Genomics to use super computing resources to accelerate the analysis of the genomic characteristics of the novel coronavirus.
Lenovo and Shenzhen, Guangdong province-based BGI Genomics are also collaborating with US chip giant Intel Corp to accelerate the analysis of genomic characteristics of the novel coronavirus.
Intel, Lenovo and BGI Genomics announced on Tuesday that they are collaborating to accelerate the analysis of the genomic characteristics of the novel coronavirus.
BGI Genomics researchers will have access to the latest in HPC and genomic analysis technologies, as well as resources and expertise from Intel and Lenovo, to further accelerate their research on the genomic characteristics of the coronavirus, the three sides said in a statement.
China is likely to witness quick momentum in the consumer genomics market as more and more people are paying to explore what make them different through DNA tests, according to industry insiders.
"China has great potential in the consumer genomics testing sector.
Compared with that of some developed countries, the market is still in its infancy in the nation," said Danny Yeung, co-founder and CEO of CircleDNA, a Chinese consumer genomics testing startup.
"Here is where genomics testing firms like us can engage in, where we are able to leverage technology to help people fully understand their health like potential risks so that they can prevent them in advance," he added.
In addition to disease preventing, Zhou Daixin, co-founder and CEO of BerryGenomics, said that the consumer genomics testing can also play a role in helping people to better know themselves.
Zhang Zhang, executive deputy director of the BIG Data Center at the Beijing Institute of Genomics of the CAS, said 6G technology will be a positive factor for scientific projects that require the transmission and analysis of large quantities of data.
Unicorns such as Giant Network Group Co Ltd, BGI Genomics Co Ltd, Focus Media Information Technology Co Ltd and 360 Security Technology Inc were pursued by investors just as they had gone public in the Chinese A-share market.
BEIJING — China's genomics giant BGI made its initial public offering (IPO) Friday on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, with shares surging by the upper limit of 44 percent shortly after its debut.