China National GeneBank

operated in Shenzhen, CNGB is among the world's largest biological-resource repositories, storing biospecimens and genomic resources as part of China's national biotechnology infrastructure.

Country: China

Research Institute Large-scale biological-resource repository

Coverage

	CN	EU	IN	US
diagnostics-medtech	✓	✓	✓	✓

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Verifiable facts

Fact	Value	Source
Affiliation	Under the guidance of Shenzhen National High-tech Industry Innovation Center; constructed and operated by BGI-Research under government entrustment	bang.cn · chinagene.cn · genomics.cn
Research focus	Life science research, bioresource conservation, genomic resources storage, precision medicine, agriculture, marine sciences, and microbial applications	codata.org · genome10k.ucsc.edu · bio-itworld.com · chinagene.cn · genomics.cn
Facility	Biorepository, Bioinformatics Data Center, Living Biobank, Digitalization Platform, and Synthesis and Editing Platform	genome10k.ucsc.edu · bio-itworld.com · genomics.cn
Grant	Supported by funding including the National Key Research and Development Program of China and the Shenzhen Municipal Government	floridamuseum.ufl.edu
Principal staff	Yonghong Mei (Director), Xun Xu (Executive Director), Chantal Shen (Director, Genome Synthesis and Editing Platform), Xiaofeng Wei (PI for CNGBdb)	genome10k.ucsc.edu · chinagene.cn

Independent sources: bang.cn · bio-itworld.com · chinagene.cn · codata.org · floridamuseum.ufl.edu · genome10k.ucsc.edu · genomics.cn

Technologies

Name	Cluster	Risk
Biobanks of human & population samples	diagnostics-medtech	Low	→

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