The direction of genetic technology development, the opportunities and challenges.

As a new gene detection technology, gene sequencing can analyze and determine the whole sequence of genes from blood or saliva, and predict the likelihood of suffering from a variety of diseases, individual behavior characteristics and behavioral rationality.
gene sequencing technology can lock in individual lesions genes and prevent and treat them in advance.
that is why this year's listing of Huada Gene has triggered a warm pursuit of the capital market.
at the 4th National Functional Genomics Summit Forum held in Beijing recently, many experts exchanged in-depth views on the direction of gene technology development and the opportunities and challenges faced.
gene sequencing is widely used at present, gene sequencing-related products and technologies have evolved from laboratory research to clinical applications.
some scholars even believe that gene sequencing may be the next to change the world, because in nature and even the human world, genetic sequencing has an irreplaceable role.
May this year, a joint scientific research team led by Kunming Plant of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, through a series of key technologies such as genome library and sequencing, has overcome the problem of tea tree genome sequencing, and is the first in the world to obtain high-quality tea tree genome sequence. Gao Lizhi, a researcher at Kunming Plant Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
, said that this has an important role to play in revealing the genetic basis for determining the suitability, flavor and quality of tea and the global ecological adaptability of tea trees.
for example, Zhang Xianlong team of Huazhong Agricultural University re-sequenced the whole genome of cotton cultivation and wild varieties, and found that there was a significant sub-genome asymmetry selection process in the process of artificial selection of cotton.
"more than 10 years of functional genomic scans have found more than 20 genes associated with the formation of important traits, which will play an important role in cotton molecular design and breeding." wang Maojun, a member of the
" Zhang Xianlong team, told China Science Daily.
genetic sequencing also plays an important role in the development of human medicine. Chen Runsheng, a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that precision medicine based on cluster data, as a landmark industry, has been included in the strategic planning by all countries.

it has the potential to directly address the many difficulties facing the healthcare industry today, and will grow in a flashine over the next few years, with the global market expected to reach $223.8 billion by 2018.
the gene big data era to open Huada gene technology services, Beijing Baimeike Biotech Co. , Ltd. Chairman Zheng Hongkun pointed out that with the continuous development of gene sequencing technology and the sharp decline in costs, as well as the country's strong support and investment in the field of genetic research, now, scientists in the field of genetic research more and more in-depth, the accumulation of genetic big data more and more, "the world has spent tens of billions, has produced nearly 20pb of massive genetic data."
" sequencing technology has allowed genetic data to accumulate at a rate far faster than Moore's Law, and massive amounts of data have put forward new demands on researchers. Zhang Zhang, a researcher at the Beijing Genomics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said
.
Zhang introduced, according to incomplete statistics, China's life-group data production accounted for about 40% of the world, but these valuable data resources have been handed over to others to manage, mainly because of China's long-term lack of biological data center covering multiple groups of data resources.
To this end, the Beijing Genomics Data Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has established a large-scale life-related data storage, integration and mining analysis research system around the national data of precision medicine and important strategic biological resources, and has initially built a platform for the convergence and sharing of life and health multi-group data.
urgent need for deep excavation and scientific interpretation compared with foreign countries, the current domestic genomics, gene sequencing is not slow to advance.
from an academic point of view, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing Genomics Institute, the Academy of Agricultural Sciences Genomics Institute and other institutions are strong, Huada gene, Baimei ke and other related enterprises engaged in gene sequencing are also gradually growing.
But in the eyes of experts, the challenges of genomics are still not small, because with the rapid development of information, instruments and other fields, the total amount of data is increasing, coupled with the addition of a variety of new indicators, parameters, data is becoming more and more complex.
" In the face of massive sequencing results, the serious challenges of data depth mining and interpretation are becoming more and more obvious.
How to make good use of these data resources in the age of genetic big data has become an important topic in the new era of biological research.
," Zheng Hongkun said.
Chen Runsheng also pointed out that at present, the rapid accumulation of data has not been interpreted efficiently;
the challenges of the sample end directly threaten the quality of the data.
but he said, "These challenges often represent opportunities, and a lot of unreadable data also offers the possibility of infinite innovation."
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