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Scott Edmunds

Editor in Chief of GigaScience and Chief Editor of GigaByte. Data nerd based at BGI Hong Kong. Co-founder of Open Data and Citizen Science organisations CivicSight, CitizenScience.Asia and Bauhinia Genome.

Archiving blogs, pt. 2: The GigaBlog Top of the Pops

- September 19, 2023

Top of the Pops

In the process of going back through our more than 300 posts over 12-years of blogging we thought we would highlight our favourites in a Top of the Pops style countdown.

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Archiving blogs: Rogue Scholar and lessons from Biome

- September 12, 2023

Rogue Scholar

GigaBlog is now archived in Rogue Scholar, a new service that provides what it calls “science blogging on steroids” through including full-text search, long-term archiving, DOIs and metadata for science blogs such as ours.

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Going Large (Language Models) at ISMB2023

- August 3, 2023

GigaScience Press team attended the yearly ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology) meeting and learned about Large Language Models.

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Converting the Field Records of Early-20th Century Public Health Pioneer to Data

- July 18, 2023

Bonne-Wepster

Field notes of the early-20th century entomologist Johanna Bonne-Wepster have been digitized as part of the GigaByte vectors of human disease series

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Announcing the GigaScience T2T Series: Closing the Gaps from Telomere-to-Telomere

- April 3, 2023

T2T series

An announcement on the GigaScience T2T (Telomere to Telomere) Series: Closing the Gaps from Telomere-to-Telomere

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Addressing the challenges of sharing computational workflows with Yevis. Q&A with Tazro Ohta.

- March 6, 2023

Yevis screenshot

We have an author Q&A and video abstract with Tazro Ohta where he gives some insight into archiving workflows and his new Yevis platform.

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GigaByte now indexed in PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC)

- February 28, 2023

pubmed indexing

GigaScience Press is pleased to announce GigaByte journal is now indexed in the NLM PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC) databases.

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The first English-Spanish-Ukrainian Publication. How to publish multilingual articles with GigaByte

- November 28, 2022

Multilingual articles

GigaByte this week marks the first time multilingual articles have been simultaneously published in English, Spanish and Ukrainian. Showcasing a novel and award winning feature from our publishing platform.

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Second call (and webinar) for GigaByte’s vectors of human disease series

- November 6, 2022

second call and umbrella image

TDR, GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a second call (and webinar) for the GigaByte series publishing new datasets for research on vectors of human diseases.

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The Genome of a Gentle Giant

- October 14, 2022

Aldabra Giant Tortoise in the zoo

Researchers have published a new chromosome scale reference genome for the Aldabra giant tortoise, providing a much needed genetic resource for rescue and rewilding efforts.

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