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The Magic of Biocuration: Biocuration 2025 in Kansas City
Chris Hunter - April 24, 2025
The Biocuration 2025 meeting held in Kansas City USA at the Stowers Institute (April 5-9) was a well organized blend of in-person and virtual participants. As regular attendees and International Society of Biocuration (ISB) members (see previous reports) GigaScience Press was represented by two members of the GigaDB team, Chris Hunter and Bastien Molcrette. The […]
From Social to Biological Networks: A New Algorithm Uncovering Key Proteins in Human Disease
Scott Edmunds - April 9, 2025
Published today in GigaScience is a new algorithm connecting social and biological networks to identify key proteins in Human Health. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a machine-learning algorithm that could enhance our understanding of human biology and disease. The new method, Weighted Graph Anomalous Node Detection (WGAND), takes inspiration from social […]
Extended call and webinar for GigaByte’s vectors of human disease series
Scott Edmunds - April 5, 2025
Regular readers will have heard the news that TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a third call for authors to submit Data Release papers on vectors of human disease for inclusion in a thematic series published in GigaByte Journal. Thanks to additional support from […]
From Social-Media to Protein Networks: join our Cassyni webinar on algorithm based detection of diseases
Scott Edmunds - April 2, 2025
GigaScience Press is pleased to announce an upcoming Cassyni webinar on algorithm based detection of diseases using AI-based approaches taken from social media to protein networks. Hosted by GigaScience Editor in Chief Scott Edmunds and featuring a chance to ask questions, this free online webinar using the Cassyni platform will be on April 8th at […]
IDCC25: The greatest discoveries made from your data will be made by someone else…..
Mary Ann Tuli - March 28, 2025
Mary Ann Tuli and Bastien Molcrette provide a write up of IDCC25 at The Hague. “The greatest discoveries made from your data will be made by someone else…..” This deliberately provocative phrase, uttered by a conference participant, sums up the challenge of preserving scientific data: to make useful information available to those, present and future, […]
Shades of blue and green
Hans Zauner - February 21, 2025
A new genomic analysis of the blue peafowl and its endangered green sister species provides insights into unwanted hybridization between these closely related birds, which may pose a risk to conservation efforts. The authors of a new GigaScience article also show that a mutation in one specific gene, EDNRB2, causes a unique white plumage variant […]
World Pangolin Day: Protecting the world’s most trafficked mammal with genomics
Hans Zauner - February 15, 2025
Today is World Pangolin Day! To celebrate the occasion GigaScience presents a new article, adding two chromosome-scale genome sequences and in-depth genomic analyses. Pangolins are cute, but the reason why it’s important to draw regular attention to these scaly mammals is more sober: Pangolins are the most trafficked wild mammals in the world, with more than […]
Publish Peer-Reviewed Protocol Papers with Protocols.io and GigaByte
Scott Edmunds - January 30, 2025
This week we are pleased to announce and highlight new updated additions to our long-running collaboration with protocols.io, linked to our first paper with a peer-reviewed protocol featuring a “Peer-reviewed method” badge on protocols.io. Alongside the addition of new functionality in protocols.io to submit protocols as method papers to GigaByte. The new GigaByte paper presents […]
Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) 32nd annual conference
Chris Hunter - January 22, 2025
The 32nd Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) Conference 2025 was a whirlwind of fascinating talks and innovative research! As in previous years (see previous blog posts here & here), the event spanned 5 complete days, this time the organisers reporting 2349 registered attendees from 64 countries. The top 5 represented countries were (highest number of […]
Sex chromosome madness in the iconic echidna
Hans Zauner - January 10, 2025
This week we published a new, high-quality genome sequence of one of Australia’s most iconic animals, the short beaked echidna. The almost gapless genome sequence of this egg-laying mammal helps researchers to track genomic reshuffling events that gave rise to a perplexing sex determination system. At first glance they may be mistaken for a weird-looking […]