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From Social-Media to Protein Networks: join our Cassyni webinar on algorithm based detection of diseases

- April 2, 2025

protein networks Cassyni webinar

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 […]

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IDCC25: The greatest discoveries made from your data will be made by someone else…..

- March 28, 2025

IDCC25 poster

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, […]

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Shades of blue and green

- February 21, 2025

blue peafowl

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 […]

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World Pangolin Day: Protecting the world’s most trafficked mammal with genomics

- 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 […]

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Publish Peer-Reviewed Protocol Papers with Protocols.io and GigaByte

- 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 […]

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Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) 32nd annual conference

- January 22, 2025

PAG

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 […]

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Sex chromosome madness in the iconic echidna

- January 10, 2025

short beaked echidna (photo by Allan Whittome, cc0)

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 […]

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Crossing the Open Science Streams: Cassyni X Sciety (and GigaByte) FTW

- January 8, 2025

Cassyni X Sciety crossover

Innovation + Integration = Cassyni X Sciety As an Open Science publisher, we’ve written extensively on our aims to think and act wider to better address the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation. Particularly the key pillars of “Open Engagement of Societal Actors” and “Open Dialogue with other Knowledge systems” where we need to improve the inclusiveness […]

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Round three for GigaByte’s vectors of human disease series

- December 23, 2024

Round three CfP

TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases hosted at the World Health Organization (WHO), 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. Round three builds on the first […]

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Urban fruits, 3D printed frog legs and gapless genomes: 2024 was wild

- December 14, 2024

It’s December again, and our teams of editors and curators are busy with the many submissions we receive at this time of year. Scientists are eager to clear their desks before a well-earned break and it’s time for the annual GigaBlog ritual: Looking back at the year that was at GigaScience Press. Citizen Science  2024 […]

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