Completion of genome starts the academic and industrial development of a species.
——National Academician XIANG Zhonghuai
Animals, plants and microbes, accompanying with human being, consist of the ecological environments in the earth. Decoding their genomes is the starts to study their features and evolution. For some species, such as rice, which are close to our life, deciphering their genomes will greatly accelerate the process of biotechnology industrialization.
Recently, scientists in BGI have been working on sequencing the diverse organisms in the earth and decoding their genomes to construct the 'Tree of Life' biologically.
