2007
·In April 2007, BGI-Shenzhen was officially registered in Shenzhen.
·On October 11, 2007, BGI-Shenzhen accomplished “The First Asian Genome Map”, and convened a press conference.
·On October 30, 2007, “2007 International Genomics Conference” that would last four days was inaugurated in the Sheraton Hotel in Dameisha Shenzhen.
·In December 2007, Science reported the achievement of “The First Asian Genome Map” by BGI-Shenzhen, which was considered as an important contribution to the research field of individual diversity in human genome, that ranked 1st in the top 10 list of global science progress in 2007.
·The achievement of “The First Asian Genome Map” was selected as “2007 China Top Ten Science & Technology News” by Science & Technology Daily.
·On December 27, 2007, Huanming Yang was elected as Academician of CAS.
2008
·On January 5, 2008, “Yanhuang 99 Project” was officially launched.
·On January 22, 2008, “The 1000 genomes project” was initiated by an international research consortium, consisting of BGI-Shenzhen, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (UK) and National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI, US).
·On March 6, 2008, “The international Giant Panda Genome Project” was officially launched.
·On March 10, 2008, “Huada Genomics Institute · Shenzhen University Medical School” was co-founded by BGI-Shenzhen and Shenzhen University.
·From 18/05/208 to 02/06/2008, BGI sent a team to Wenchuan Sichuan for the post-disaster disease control of “5·12 Wenchuan Earthquake”.
·On June 19, 2008, BGI-Shenzhen was approved as a non-profit organization by Shenzhen government.
·On October 11, 2008, the Press Conference regarding the achievement of giant panda genome map and cloning pig was convened on the opening day of “The 10th China HI-TECH Fair” in Shenzhen.
·From 02/11/2008 to 05/11/2008, “2008 International Conference on Genomics-Application in Asian Pacific” was convened in Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
·On November 6, 2008, “The diploid genome sequence of an Asian individual” was published on the cover page of Natural.
·On November 7, 2008, the Press Conference regarding the publication of the first Asian genome map on Natural was convened at the press conference room of Shenzhen government.
·On December 28, 2008, the achievement of first giant panda genome map was selected as “2008 China top 10 Science & Technology News”.
2009
·On January 18, 2009, the publication of research achievement of the first Asian genome map ranked 4th among “2008 China Top 10 Science & Technology News”, which was co-organized by Academician Bureau of CAS, Academician Bureau of CAE, and Science Daily.
·On February 17, 2009, the Opening Ceremony for Sino-Danish Cancer Research Center was held in BGI-Shenzhen.
·On March 12, 2009, “Genomics Innovation Class” was co-founded by BGI-Shenzhen and South China University of Technology.
·On March 20, 2009, the opening ceremony of BGI-Hong Kong was held in Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks.
·On March 20, 2009, CUHK-BGI(SZ) was established, while the ceremony was held in CUHK.
·On April 24, 2009, the Press Conference regarding Three Extreme-Environment Animals Genome Projects was convened in BGI-Shenzhen.
·On April 30, 2009, BIONET the 4th workshop was held in Shenzhen.
·On June 26, 2009, the article SNP detection for massively parallel whole-genome resequencing by BGI was selected by Nature China as outstanding scientific achievement from China mainland and Hong Kong.
·On July 20, 2009, “Explore the Mystery of Life” Summer Camp sponsored by BGI and Beijing Youth Science and Technology Club Committee, and “Genomics and Bioinformatics Class” were opened in BGI-Shenzhen.
·On August 1, 2009, “Ten Thousand Microbial Genomes Project” was officially launched in BGI-Shenzhen.
·On August 28, 2009, Science published the article “Complete Resequencing of 40 Genomes Reveals Domestication Events and Genes in Silkworm (Bombyx)”, which is another achievement of collaboration between BGI-Shenzhen and Southwest University in the field of silkworm genome since 2003.
·On October 15, 2009, 2009 Genomics Undergraduate Innovative Education Seminar was held in BGI-Shenzhen.
·On November 1, 2009, the article regarding the achievement of The International cucumber Genome Project was published online in Nature Genetics.
·From 03/11/2009 to 05/11/2009, The 4th International Genomics Conference was convened in Shenzhen.
·On December 7, 2009, Nature Biotechnology published the essay with the title of Building the Sequence Map of the Human Pan-Genome accomplished by close collaboration between BGI-Shenzhen and South China University of Technology, Guangzhou.
·On December 13, 2009, the sequence and de novo assembly of the giant panda genome accomplished by BGI-Shenzhen was published in Nature.
·On December 27, 2009, BGI and Qinghai University have completed sequencing the genome of Tibetan antelopes, which will hopefully explain the pathogenesis of chronic plateau sickness.
·On December 28, 2009, the news that Building the Sequence Map of the Human Pan-Genome published in Nature Biotechnology ranks tenth of Chinese Top 10 Scientific and Technological News. It is the sixth time that the scientific research of BGI is acknowledged by Science Daily, one of the most prestigious scientific magazines in China.
2010
·In January, 2010, BGI has purchased 128 HiSeq 2000 sequencing systems, representing the largest single order for next-generation sequencing systems to date.
·On January 21, 2010,The print issue of Nature contains the giant panda sequencing paper by BGI-Shenzhen researcher Jun Wang and his team.
·On January 9, 2010, BGI officially launched the 1000 plant and animal reference genome project and calls for the collaboration from all over the world.
·In January, 2010, The article entitled, “Complete resequencing of 40 genomes reveals domestication events and genes in silkworm (Bombyx)”, “The genome of the cucumber, Cucumis sativus L” , “The sequence and de novo assembly of the giant panda genome” have recently been featured on Nature China, an online publication from Nature Publishing Group, the publisher of Nature.
·On February 10, 2010, BGI and university of Copenhagen reported online in Nature that they have sequenced an ancient human genome using DNA isolated from preserved hair samples found in Greenland's permafrost.
·On February 17th, 2010, Mr. Wan Gang, Vice Chairman of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and The Minister of The Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, inspected BGI, accompanied by the President of BGI, Mr.Wang Jian and the Vice-President of BGI, Mr.Wang Jun.
·On March 3, 2010，BGI led research team published a proof-of-principle metagenomics study using short read sequencing to catalog and characterize the microbial genes present in the human gut.
·Next Generation Sequencing Platform of BGI-Shenzhen has received the ISO9001 certification issued by SGS on March 18th, 2010.
·On March 19th, 2010, BGI and US teams announced “the symbiont genome project”, which is to sequence the genomes of sea slug, Elysia chlorotica and its algal food Vaucheria litorea.
·On April 13th, 2010, The Chinese Marrow Donor Program (CMDP) officials led by the Director of Volunteer Database Management Center, Liu Jinghu, surveyed oral mucosa swab sampling activity which was carried out in BGI.
·On May 3rd, 2010, the single base-resolution methylome of the silkworm, accomplished by the joint efforts of BGI, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, and Southwest University, was published online by Nature Biotechnology.
·On April 27th, 2010, BGI Americas was founded and set up the head office in Boston, U.S.
·On May 13th and 14th, 2010, the International Conference on the Progress of “1000 Plant and Animal Reference Genomes Project” ("1000 Project" for short) was held in BGI-Shenzhen, China.
·On the May 17th 2010, 15:00 Denmark local time, the Sino-Danish Economic Cooperation Forum and the business contract signing ceremony was held in Copenhagen. With the co-witness of the Chinese Minister of Commerce Mr. Deming Chen and the Danish Minister of Economic Department of Commerce Mr. Brain Mikkelsen, Professor Songgang Li, the associated director of BGI, signed the business contract on behalf of BGI and officially announced the set up of BGI Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark.
·On May, 22nd, 2010, the President of BGI, Mr. Wang Jian, Dr. Chen Fang, together with the Chairman of China Vanke, Mr. Wang Shi and other mountaineers, have successfully ascended the summit of Mount Everest, the most inaccessible place in the world.
·A collaborative research team from King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia and BGI (Formerly known as Beijing Genomics Institute, headquarter at Shenzhen), People’s Republic of China, is the first in the world to successfully map the full genome of Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius).
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