China plans to build gigantic DNA database platform
31-Oct-17, ET Healthworld
China plans to build a USD 1 billion super-sized DNA sequencing platform in the Jiangsu Province aimed at storing genetic information of millions of its ethnic Chinese population.
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The DNA project is part of the National Health & Medicine Big Data (Nanjing) Center, a 6 billion (USD 1 billion) project. During the first phase, health and medical information on about 80 million people, the equivalent of the population in Jiangsu, will be stored at the center.