“在 SARS 面前,我们打了败仗。”这是近来杨焕明逢会必说的一句话。作为中科院北京基因组研究所首任所长,“人类基因组计划”中国区总协调人,杨焕明清楚,在 SARS 病毒基因组的测序上,中国本来完全有可能争得世界第一。这不仅因为中国科学家有机会最早、最多地接触到第一手资料,而且中国的研究中心无论规模还是技术水平,绝不逊于国际同行。然而,在SARS 研究中,中国目前的首创记录全 “In the face of SARS, we defeated. ” This is the recent words of Yang Huan-ming will be saying. As the first director of the Beijing Genomics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yang Huanming, general coordinator of Human Genome Project in China, knows that China could have won first place in the sequencing of the SARS virus genome. This is not only because Chinese scientists have the earliest and most access to first-hand information, but Chinese research centers are no less powerful than their international counterparts, both in scale and technology. However, in the study of SARS, the first record of China's current record