国家基因库基地位于深圳市大鹏新区大鹏街道下沙片区“禾塘仔”地块，是继美国国家生物技术信息中心（the US National Center of Biotechnology Information）、欧洲生物信息研究所（the European Bioinformatics Institute）、日本DNA数据库（the DNA Data Bank of Japan）之后的全球第4个国家级基因库（the fourth national gene bank established in the world）。

　　China's first national gene bank opens on September 22. The national gene bank, which took five years to create, was approved by four government departments including the National Development and Reform Commission, and is operated by BGI-Shenzhen.

　　我国首个国家基因库于本月22日开幕。这个国家基因库耗时5年建设，由国家发改委等4部委批复、深圳华大基因运营。