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Round three for GigaByte’s vectors of human disease series
Scott Edmunds - December 23, 2024
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 […]
Urban fruits, 3D printed frog legs and gapless genomes: 2024 was wild
Hans Zauner - 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 […]
Continuing Journeys in Space: Human Cell Atlas Asia and Our Spatial Omics Series
Scott Edmunds - November 30, 2024
Human Cell Atlas Asia 2024: A Spatial Omics Odyssey The GigaScience Press Cross Journal (GigaScience and GigaByte) series on “Spatial Omics: Methods and Application” continues to receive and publish submissions. Promoting and providing a home for cutting edge research in new field taking large-scale data-rich biological and biomedical research into new dimensions. This month new […]
A visit from the Oriental Stork
Hans Zauner - October 23, 2024
This week in GigaScience we published a new genomic analysis of the endangered Oriental Stork, bringing good news: The population’s genetic health is still surprisingly strong, with high genetic diversity and low levels of inbreeding. Climate change, forest wildfires, hunting and the expansion of agriculture, industry and other human activities threaten the Oriental Stork (Ciconia […]
Getting deep into the weeds of Cannabis genomics: Join our first Cassyni Seminar
Scott Edmunds - October 20, 2024
Reaching new highs in Cannabis sativa Omics There is a growing interest in Cannabis (Cannabis sativa) research, and recent changes in regulations have spurred numerous genomic studies of this once-prohibited plant. Industrial hemp and medical marijuana are now global multibillion-dollar industries, but due to its widespread prohibition in the 20th and early 21st century it […]
Filling the Biodiversity Dark Spots: Announcing the Asia Nature Challenge
Scott Edmunds - October 3, 2024
GigaScience Press is helping CitizenScience.Asia mobilise Citizen Scientists Across Asia for a groundbreaking biodiversity initiative from October 18 to 27 2024. Regular readers will have seen our efforts to promote and amplify citizen science projects, citizen science being a key driver of “Open Engagement of Societal Actors”, which was highlighted by UNESCO as one of […]
Machine Learning Standards in the Wild. DOME Webinar on ML Recommendations and Applications
Scott Edmunds - September 18, 2024
Watch a DOME Webinar on Machine Learning Best Practices & Recommendations on 24th September 2024 In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in scientific publications in journals publishing computational research such as ours utilising Machine Learning (ML). This represents a significant challenge for disseminating and assessing scientific research as the black box and […]
Launch of the T2T Series: Closing the Gaps from Telomere-to-Telomere
Scott Edmunds - August 26, 2024
GigaScience’s T2T Series has now launched, with our first papers showcasing new Telomere-to-Telomere methods and genomic data sets. While the first draft of the Human Genome was declared complete in April 2003, it took a further two decades for the publication of the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome in March 2022. The […]
ISMB2024 – Demystifying the World of AI (and Publishing)
Scott Edmunds - July 21, 2024
Opening a Cabinet of Curiosities in Montreal Readers of this blog must know every summer the GigaScience Press team gathers at the ISMB (International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology) conference, where the great and good of computational biology gather for the largest bioinformatics conference of the year. Being the meeting where GigaScience launched in […]
MicroCT Imaging of Metamorphosis in the African Clawed Toad
Chris Armit - July 19, 2024
MicroCT imaging is an exceptional tool for 3D visualisation. A new Data Note published in GigaScience reports on a unique, high-quality series of MicroCT images that covers the lifespan of an amphibian from tadpole to froglet to mature adult frog. The Data Note reports on a 3D anatomical atlas of an important model organism of […]