摘要
The China Symposium on Single-Cell Genomics was successfully held in Beijing,on May 25,2019(Figure 1).This conference was initiated by Tsinghua University,chaired by Prof.Xuegong Zhang,and co-organized with Illumina and 10x Genomics.The focus of the symposium was to elicit a discussion on"Building cell atlas,empowering cellular medicine"with single-cell technologies.It consisted of leading experts,10 invited talks and a panel discussion session covering the Human Cell Atlas(HCA)project progress,the latest single-cell profiling technology developments,medical applications,as well as standards,ethics,data sharing and global collaboration.The Symposium brought together upwards of 300 professionals and graduate students as well as over 4,000 online attendants.
