After more than 100 local confirmed cases, the prevention and control of the epidemic in Nanjing has been upgraded, and nucleic acid testing has been further strengthened. The reporter learned from the BGI Group that, recently, BGI was invited by the Nanjing New Crown Pneumonia Joint Prevention and Control Headquarters to quickly build the Nanjing “Fire Eye” laboratory.

It is reported that on the evening of July 26, after overnight construction and commissioning, Nanjing’s “Huoyan” laboratory was completed. It is located on the 11th of the 8,000-square-meter Nanjing International Expo Center Phase III. No. Stadium. At present, the laboratory has been officially put into use, and the daily detection throughput can reach 200,000 single tubes. If 10 mixed 1 mixed collection technology is used, a maximum of 2 million nucleic acid samples can be detected per day.

BGI Group said that the Nanjing “Huoyan” laboratory was constructed by BGI and Nanjing Construction Management Group. After completion, Nanjing First Hospital will be responsible for operation. BGI will provide technical support and jointly guarantee the experiment. The laboratory operates normally, and the laboratory adopts a shift operation mode.

Nanjing “Huoyan” laboratory consists of 12 negative pressure hard air capsules and 15 negative pressure soft air capsules. Among them, on July 24, the first batch of 2 sets of 6-chamber hard film laboratories began to be constructed, and the construction was completed within 6 hours. On July 25, another 15-chamber soft air film and two 6-chamber hard air film laboratories were set up in only 9 hours. “Huoyan” laboratory is based on the new crown of BGI A high-throughput nucleic acid testing laboratory that is needed for epidemic prevention and control, combined with years of accumulated core technology and laboratory operation experience. The air-film version of the “Huoyan” laboratory uses flame-retardant, wear-resistant, and highly stable PVC materials as the main building materials. The air arch structure is formed by a double-layer air film to provide a negative pressure environment, which meets the BSL-2 laboratory level. Requirements. It also has a high volume compression ratio, can be folded and disassembled, and can be transported by air cargo after packaging, which can realize flexible site selection, fast transportation, fast layout, fast construction, and fast start-up.

In addition, in order to improve the efficiency of large-scale nucleic acid detection, the “Huoyan” laboratory is equipped with a variety of automated anti-epidemic “black technologies” independently developed by MGI to enable detection The efficiency is greatly improved compared with manual operation. Among them, MGISP-NE384 automatic nucleic acid extractionThe purifier can assist in the extraction of viral nucleic acid, and the daily detection throughput of a single machine is as high as 10,000 cases, which greatly accelerates the laboratory’s detection process. This equipment is currently the first fully automatic nucleic acid extraction and purification instrument that has passed anti-epidemic inspections on the market.

MGISTP-7000 automatic sub-cup processing system can complete the automatic sub-packaging and information processing of 192 samples within 40 minutes, which solves the most labor-intensive and infection in nucleic acid detection The most risky sample subassembly process works. The MGISP-960 high-throughput automated virus nucleic acid extraction equipment has undergone epidemic prevention and control verification in more than 50 countries around the world, and has powerful automated nucleic acid extraction functions and automated sequencing library preparation functions. As of now, the “Fire Eye” laboratory has been Beijing, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Guangzhou and other major cities landed. It is worth mentioning that, as the “China business card” of scientific and technological anti-epidemic, “Huoyan” laboratory has also moved from China to the world, with more than 80 sites in nearly 30 countries and regions around the world.