Bio-IT World Brief | The official opening of the China National GeneBank (CNGB) marks a new phase in Chinese-International genomics collaboration, providing scientists from across the world with access to one of the world's most comprehensive and sophisticated biorepositories with the goal of enabling breakthroughs in human health research, and contributing to global biodiversity conservation efforts.

Bio-IT World “We’ve already entered the era of ubiquitous genetic information.” says Yaniv Erlich, so he and colleagues have built DNA.Land, to crowdsource these available genomes from individuals. A ticker on the DNA.Land website counts almost 32,000 genomes deposited into DNA.Land so far. The project recently launched a collaboration with the National Breast Cancer Coalition and has started offering trait predictions.