Timeline of institution, its research units, and major achievements since 1998. According to the institution name, the history of our institution can be divided into three stages (light blue), namely, BGI & BIG (1999–2003), BIG (2003–2019), BIG & CNCB (from 2019 onwards), along with major achievements (light red) and involved parties (light green) labeled. Abbreviations used are: BGI for the Beijing Genomics Institute; BHBD for the Biodiversity and Health Big Data; BIG for the Beijing Institute of Genomics; CAS for the Chinese Academy of Sciences; CNCB for the China National Center for Bioinformation; GPB for the journal Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics; GSA for the Genome Sequence Archive; HapMap for the International HapMap Project; HGP for the Human Genome Project; HGRC for the Human Genome Research Center; and NGDC for the National Genomics Data Center.