Drew Endy participated in collaboration on synthethetic biology. Meetings took place at Bioinformatics Center, Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), Shenzhen, China. BGI Participants included Dr.Huanming Yang who coordinated; Guangyu Zhou, the project manager of Bioinformatics Center and his team members; Jun Wang, CEO of BGI; Yingrui Li, the Director of Bioinformatics Center and BGI R&D members. Eric Lander from MIT and Harvard also attended.