BGI has come to Massachusetts, establishing a subsidiary which will offer resources for sequencing and analyzing DNA to its collaborators and clients in North and South America, reports the Boston Globe's Carolyn Johnson. BGI's new facility is located in Cambridge, not far from the Broad Institute, Johnson says, and it also plans to open a genome center in San Francisco by early next year. The institute's president of American operations, Paul Tu, tells Johnson that BGI needs a "fee-for-service" as it grows, as government grants alone cannot support all the research BGI undertakes.
In September, our sister publication In Sequence reported on BGI's expansion efforts here.