The vision behind the centre is the sequencing of all types of organisms and biological entities, bacteria and other microorganisms, cells, plants, cell models, tissues, animals and humans.

Collaboration with the Beijing Genomic Institute (BGI) and the establishment of BGI-Europe constitute a unique point of departure for becoming an internationally leading player within this field. The topicality of the centre is emphasised by the fact that the Dano-Chinese collaboration (between Aarhus University, the Technical University of Denmark, the University of Copenhagen and BGI) has just received substantial funding from the Advanced Technology Foundation for a bioinformatics genome platform.

At Aarhus University, the heaviest players will come from the areas of Health, Science and Technology, and School of Business and Social Sciences on account of their internationally leading expertise within genetics, epidemiology, the paraclinical and clinical sciences, mathematics, statistics, bioinformatics and massive data processing.

However, the centre could also accommodate innovative projects in collaboration with Arts.