The symposium on New Technology and Method of Metagenomics was held in Beijing on January 10, 2014. It was organized by the Beijing Institutes of Life Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (BIOLS, CAS). More than 150 researchers from institutes of CAS and universities attended the symposium.  

The topics of the symposium included the bioinformatics approaches for metagenomic analysis, microbial metagenomics and human health, environmental microbiology diversity, etc. Ten scientists from CAS institutes and famous universities gave presentations on their recent research advances. The attendees had a lively discussion on this new area of life sciences.