Monthly Archives: January 2025

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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