In 2004 the Executive Yuan announced that in order to ensure that Taiwan did not lose the genetic data collection race right from the start, the government would plan and promote the creation of Taiwan's own biobank.
2004 年行政院宣布，為了避免台灣在基因資料收集競賽中輸在起跑點，政府計劃推動建立台灣生物資料庫。