A genome sequence of Chinese ginseng (Panax ginseng) has been revealed, announced in a press conference in Beijing on March 4, 2011.
Beijing Institute of Genomics won the Genome Valley Excellence Award in BioAsia 2011 Conference on February 22, 2011.
Cuban scientist Prof. Vicente Vérez-Bencomo, director of the Center for Synthetic Antigens, University of Havana, visited BIG on November 22, 2010.
Beijing Institute of Genomics signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement on the ginseng genome research in Changchun on November 11, 2010.
Russian scientist Prof. Eugene Vysotski, from Institute of Biophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, visited Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG) on November 1, 2010.
A cornerstone laying ceremony for the new laboratory building of Beijing Institute of Genomics was held at the construction site on October 15, 2010.
