BGI Group

History

YearDetail
1999 BGI was established.
2000 The rice genome project was launched.
2007 Shenzhen BGI Research Institute was established.
2015 BGISEQ-500, the first proprietary desktop high-throughput sequencing system, was launched globally.
2020 BGI Genomics successfully developed the SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid testing kits.
2021 BGI-Research Sanya was unveiled, and collaborated with six units to create a global big data center of zoology and botany.