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GigaScience Press’ has been awarded one of the first CrossRef MetaData Awards, highlighting the Press as a leader in providing essential information to facilitate discovery, identification, and details of online research articles. This week GigaScience Press has been announced as a winner at the inaugural Crossref Metadata Awards, recognising efforts in scholarly publishing metadata completeness […]

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Following our previous DNA Day 2025 post covering where we are in the T2T (telomere-to-telomer) genomes era, we have a second expert Q&A covering the topic, this time from Kateryna Makova on the challenges (and opportunities) of  assembly of T2T sex chromosomes. Lets Talk about Sex Chromosomes Kateryna Makova is the Verne M. Willaman Chair […]

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Today is International DNA Day, commemorating the day in 1953 when Crick, Watson, Wilkins and Franklin published their papers on the structure of DNA. Fifty years later, with the declaration that the human genome project was close to completion the US Senate and the House of Representatives declared that 25th April 2003 would be the […]

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As another DNA Day treat GigaByte today publishes new benchmark data and analysis of the new CycloneSEQ platform, a novel sequencing technology using nanopores that demonstrates here the ability to sequence complete bacterial genomes. Following on from the recent official launch of BGI’s new CycloneSEQ single-molecule sequencer the new Data Release published today in GigaByte […]

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Regular readers may have followed our community genome project Bauhinia Genome, and today marks the end of this journey with the publication in GigaScience of  completely gapless telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assembly which helps advance our understanding of the genomic structure underlying the captivating traits of Hong Kong’s floral emblem. The 25th April is International DNA […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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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