◎ Science and Technology Daily reporter Lu Chengkuan
Biological resources are important strategic resources in China. Strengthening the protection, research and utilization of strategic biological resources is of great significance.
On December 24, the Strategic Biological Resources Program Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences released the Catalogue of Biological Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the Catalogue). The Catalogue brings together 72 biological resource libraries from 40 research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with more than 7.43 million biological resource data. At present, these biological resource data and related achievements are all open to the society through the network information portal.
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Biological resources are the most basic material basis for human reproduction and development, mainly including animals, plants, microbial organisms and the communities, populations and ecosystems composed of them. "China is one of the countries with the richest biological resources in the world, ranking among the top in the world in terms of both type and quantity." Ma Juncai, director of the Strategic Biological Resources Program Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, pointed out.
Ma Juncai introduced that the world's major economies attach great importance to the protection and research of biological resources, and invest a lot of money every year to carry out major scientific plans related to animals, plants and microbiomes, etc., and comprehensively lay out the protection and research of biological resources; at the same time, long-term preservation and utilization system construction has also been carried out in animal resources, plant resources, microbial resources, specimen resources, etc., forming a whole chain support for innovation and service.
As a national strategic scientific and technological force, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has always attached importance to the preservation and innovative research of biological resources. In 2016, the Chinese Academy of Sciences launched the Strategic Biological Resources Program (BRP), which takes serving social development and supporting scientific research as its basic function, facing the major needs of the country and the main battlefield of the national economy.
With the strong support of the Bureau of Science and Technology for Development of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the project has been running for 6 years, forming a "5+3+1" network structure, that is, five resource collection and preservation platforms: biological herbarium (museum), botanical garden, biological genetic resources library, laboratory animal platform, biodiversity monitoring and research network; 3 resource evaluation and transformation platforms: plant germplasm resources innovation platform, natural compound discovery and evaluation transformation platform, genetic and biological resources derivation database; establishment of strategic biological resources information center. The information application results of each resource platform were released.
The Catalogue includes biological specimen resources, plant resources, biological genetic resources, laboratory animal resources and biodiversity monitoring network resources, forming a complete data ecosystem. Ma Juncai said that the release and sharing of these biological resource data and related achievements will effectively promote the integration and sharing of biological resource data and the support of the national biological industry.
Ma Juncai said that standing at the starting point of the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan", the strategic biological resources plan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences will further carry out the research and development of common technologies for the systematic evaluation and mining and utilization of biological resources, collect and systematically evaluate important biological resources at home and abroad, form a number of new components, new materials, new varieties and new technologies with independent intellectual property rights, and strengthen information construction and open sharing services, which is the material guarantee for enhancing China's independent scientific and technological innovation capabilities and the urgent need to integrate resources to promote the development of biological industries. It is also an important way to achieve a balance between national economic development and ecological protection.
Source: Science and Technology Daily
Editor: Wang Yu
Review: Wang Xiaolong
Final Judge: He Yi
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