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探秘华大基因的成功密码 In?2010,?Bill?Gates?visited?an?unremarkable building?in?an?industrial?estate?on?the?outskirts?of Shenzhen,?China.2010年，比尔盖茨参观了中国深圳郊区一个工业区的一栋寻常建筑。?With?row?after?row?of?high-tech machinery?humming?inside,?the?place?could?easily be?mistaken?for?an?anonymous?data?warehouse.里面一排排的高科技机器在嗡嗡作响，这个地方很可能被误认为一个无名数据仓库 But?Mr?Gates?and?Ray?Yip,?head?of?the?Gates?Foundation’s?China?operation,?saw?something?else that?day.?As?they?toured?the?BGI?headquarters BGI总部,?the?two?men?were?stunned?by?the?ambition?of the?scientists?working?at?the?biotech?company.?Inside,?more?than?150?state?of?the?art?genetic sequencing?machines?were?analysing?the?equivalent?of?thousands?of?human?genomes?a?day在该公司里面，150多台先进基因测序仪正每天对着数千人个人类基因组进行分析. The?company?is?working?towards?a?goal?of?building?a?huge?library?based?on?the?DNA?of?many millions?of?people.?BGI?executives?see?this?not?as?the?end-game,?but?as?the?springboard?for?new drug?discoveries,?advanced?genetic?research?and?a?transformation?of?public?health?policy华大基因的高管们不认为这是终极目标，而是新药开发，高级基因研究和公共健康政策改革的一个跳板. “We?were?taken?aback吃惊,”?Mr?Yip?recalls. “We?never?thought?we?would?find?such?an?out-of-the-box approach.?They?are?in?their?own?league?—?open?and?liberal.我们从没有想过我们会发现这么具有创意的方式，他们独树一帜，开放且自由” Since?the?initial?visit自从初次参观以来,?Gates?Foundation?staffers?have?partnered?BGI?on?various?genetic research?projects,?from?sequencing?the?rice?genome?to?collaborating?on?the?cancer?genome project盖茨基金会的共组人员一直与华大基因组研究项目上展开合作，从大米基因组测序到癌症基因组项目合作.?The?Gates?Foundation?has?also?joined?a?long?list?of?groups?providing?funds?to?BGI?盖茨基金会加入了像华大基因提供资金的名单—?a list?that?also?included?Sequoia?Capital,?the?Silicon?Valley?venture?capital?firm. “Most?people?only see?them?as?a?service?provider?for?DNA?analysis,”?says?a?BGI?investor. “It?is?the?database?they are?building?that?will?make?them?formidable.” BGI’s?backers?say?the?company?symbolises?（represent）a?new?type?of?Chinese?tech?company.?Chinese companies?have?long?been?regarded?as?copycats?—?if?not?outright?thieves?—?wh