Dr Songnian and his team performs whole genome sequence, including sequencing, assembling, finishing and so on. They also analyse the composing and structure of the whole genome. Now we mainly focused on Microbial Genomes and re-sequencing of important genome such as human, rice and so on. Dr Songnian received his Ph.D degree in Plant Molecular Biology from China Agricultural University in 1996. He became the program director and main participator of International Human Genome Projects—Beijing region at BGI in 1999, set up the largest genome sequencing platform in China. In 2001, he lead the team to successfully finish the draft sequence of rice genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica) within 50 days and made major innovations in reducing the sequencing cost and increasing the efficiency. he was awarded “Outstanding Scientific and Technology achievement award for a research group” of Qiu Shi Scientific and Technology Foundation in 2002 and “Outstanding Scientific and Technology achievement award for a research group” of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003 due to his standout contribution to “Human Genome Project for China Region”, “China Super Hybrid Rice Genome Project”, and the excellent behavior in setting up large-scale DNA sequencing platform. He has also participated other genome projects carried out at BIG such as “Sino-Danish Porcine Genome Project”, silkworm genome project and chicken genome variation mapping project. He has published more than 60 papers, two monographs and participated in another two monographs.

Genomics, Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics