MGI, a subsidiary of the BGI Group, announced today that Duncan Yu, President of MGI and Executive Vice President of BGI, and Hui Jiang, Chief Operating Officer of MGI and Vice President of BGI Research, have been invited to present during the upcoming 37th J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in January. PRESENTATION DETAILS JPM Conference China Track Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 Time of MGI Presentation: 8:30 a.m. Speaker: Duncan Yu, Executive Vice President of BGI and President of MGI ...

"We decided to collaborate with BGI and use all the technology that has been developed by MGI. So far we are very happy with the quality of the data from the project, and it is the best quality we have ever seen." — Dr. Mathias Uhlén Dr. Mathias Uhlén, Professor of Microbiology at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), founding director of Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), and senior researcher of Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, gave an inspiring presentation on the topic of...

P4 China 2018 3rd International Precision Medical Convention has recently wrapped up in Beijing. MGI showcased MGISP-960, its latest high-throughput automated sample preparation system, which has attracted the attention of experts, scholars, and peers. With the rapid growth in sequencing market, the workload of sequencing sample preparation has also increased exponentially. The slow speed and instability of manual sample prep have become the roadblock for sequencing development of many organiza...

At MGI Technology and Application Conference of Genomics (TACG) held during ICG-13, Dr. Fuman Jiang, scientist from JingKe Bio, gave a presentation on the topic of Practice and Insights of Sequencing Applications: Genetic Disease Detection Based on MGISEQ-2000. In her speech, Dr. Jiang focused on the application of Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) in diagnosis of genetic diseases by sharing two real-life cases of JingKe Bio. She presented data generated with MGISEQ-2000 and MGI's WES reagents in t...

MGI, a subsidiary of BGI Group, has made upgrades in its genetic sequencer MGISEQ-2000 to make it more productive and effective. What’s New in MGISEQ-2000: Average effective reads/flow cell has been increased up to 1800M, meaning increase in data throughput while retaining the same price The cost per Gb of data output has been reduced under the same read length o Sequencing time of read length PE100 has been reduced to only 2 days o Sequencing throughput has been increased throughout the y...

At MGI Technology and Application Conference of Genomics (TACG) held during ICG-13 on October 25, Dr. Yasushi Okazaki, team leader, and Dr. Ken Yagi, deputy team leader of RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, gave an inspiring speech about the MGI high-throughput genetic sequencer MGISEQ-2000 as the highly versatile platform to satisfy the multiple needs of RIKEN research projects. RIKEN, as one of the leading national research institutes in Japan, established the Genomic Sciences Cen...