Global health emergencies – like COVID-19 – pose major and recurring threats in the 21st century. Now societies can be better protected against such harrowing outbreaks by analysing the detailed genetic sequence data of new pathogens. Why, then, is this valuable epistemic resource frequently withheld by stakeholders – hamstringing the international response and potentially putting lives at risk? This article initiates the social scientific study of bioinformational diplomacy, that is, the emerging field of tensions, sensitivities, practices and enabling instruments surrounding the timely international exchange of bioinformation about global health emergencies. The article genealogically locates this nascent field at the intersection of molecularised life, informationalised biology and securitised health. It investigates the deeper political, economic and scientific problematisations that are engendering this burgeoning field. It finally analyses the emergent international instruments developed by governments, scientists and industry to facilitate more rapid global sharing of bioinformation through novel practices of data passporting. Overall, the in-depth study of bioinformational diplomacy reveals just how deeply, and even constitutively, international relations are entangled with the life sciences – by carefully tracing how laboratory practices of sequencing life at molecular scale also end up recontouring the play of sovereignty, power and security in international relations.

全球卫生紧急事件（例如COVID-19）在21世纪构成了重大且反复发生的威胁。现在，通过分析新病原体的详细基因序列数据，可以更好地保护社会免受此类痛苦的爆发。那么，为什么利益攸关方经常扣留这种宝贵的认知资源，从而阻碍了国际反应并可能危及生命？本文启动了生物信息外交的社会科学研究，即围绕全球卫生紧急情况及时进行生物信息国际交流的紧张局势，敏感性，做法和扶持性工具的新兴领域。这篇文章从谱学角度将这一新生领域定位在分子化生命，信息生物学和证券化健康的交汇处。它调查更深层次的政治，经济和科学上的问题化正在催生这个新兴领域。最后，它分析了由政府，科学家和工业界开发的新兴国际文书，以通过数据护照的新颖做法促进更快速的全球生物信息共享。总的来说，对生物信息外交的深入研究揭示了国际关系与生命科学之间的纠缠，甚至是构成上的纠缠-通过仔细追踪分子级生命测序实验室实践如何最终重新塑造了主权，权力的作用。和国际关系中的安全。科学家和工业界通过新的数据护照实践促进更快速的全球生物信息共享。总的来说，对生物信息外交的深入研究揭示了国际关系与生命科学之间的纠缠，甚至是构成上的纠缠-通过仔细追踪分子级生命测序实验室实践如何最终重新塑造了主权，权力的作用。和国际关系中的安全。科学家和工业界通过新的数据护照实践促进更快速的全球生物信息共享。总的来说，对生物信息外交的深入研究揭示了国际关系与生命科学之间的纠缠，甚至是构成上的纠缠-通过仔细追踪分子级生命测序实验室实践如何最终重新塑造了主权，权力的作用。和国际关系中的安全。