BGI CEO Wang Jun On Big Data, Drug Development And Fundamental Innovation: An Interview With PharmAsia News (Part 1 of 2)
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Named “one of the ten people who mattered” in 2012 by the journal Nature, the BGI-Shenzhen co-founder talks about how big data will change the course of R&D, from drug development to agriculture to a new carbon world.
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