A visit to BGI!

Oct 25, 2015

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A visit to BGI!Hello! It's me again!
Today is the last day of ICG 10 (International Conference on Genomics) in Shenzhen, China. Our BGI collaborator, Shifeng Cheng, invited me to visit their headquarter in east Shenzhen, where they pumped out all the Azolla short-read sequences. How can I say no! So here we go!
As soon as you see this, you know you are in the BGI territory...

Lots of sequencers in lots of rooms

Shifeng and I (I'm the guy on the right...)
                
Oh yeah! Take a dip in a nearby beach after a long day work!

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About This Project

Azolla, a little fern with massive green potential

Duke University

Azolla is a symbiotic superorganism that captures all the nitrogen fertilizer it needs to grow from the air around it. Asia’s farmers have long known this, growing Azolla together with rice to provide a natural fertilizer to bolster rice productivity.

Genome sequencing of Azolla is a big step toward potentially helping crops to use less synthetic nitrogen that would benefit farmers' bottom lines, the environment, and the prices we pay for food.