Large Scale Genomic Studies at China National Genebank.
Time: 6:50 PM
After 5 years of construction, the China National GeneBank (CNGB) was opened in September 2016.
CNGB, the first of its kind in China, is operated by BGI and will provide an open platform for global scientific research. So far, CNGB has established a bio-repository with the capacity to store tens of millions of samples, a database with a storage capacity of 20Pb as well as a living biobank. CNGB also offers an in-house sequencing infrastructure with the capacity to generate 10 Tb of data per day.
With this infrastructure, we have initiated several large scale genomic studies, including an avian genome project that will be introduced here, along with other examples of large scale genome projects currently under way.
As the CNGB is rapidly ramping up, we are open for additional global collaborations in which our infrastructure can add value.