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Guest Blog: Data in the time of Coronavirus
Scott Edmunds - February 4, 2020
With much of the GigaScience team spanning the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border and now confined to remote working, the current 2019-novel coronavirus outbreak has been particularly disruptive and close to home. As with previous WHO “public-health emergency of international concern” such as Ebola and Zika, data has provided a potent tool in fighting both the outbreak, and […]
The genome of an elusive giant
Hans Zauner - January 16, 2020
Hear more on how an international team led by researchers at the University of Copenhagen has sequenced the elusive giant squid genome.
Big data, big conferences, big plans: 2019 in review
Hans Zauner - December 21, 2019
This is the last blog post of 2019 and it is time again to look back at some of the amazing research published in GigaScience over the past year. Besides handling manuscripts, reviews and data, the editors and curators also attended conferences near and far, they contributed to policy discussions and prepared the launch of […]
GigaScience at ASCB|EMBO 2019 Meeting, Washington DC
Chris Armit - December 19, 2019
The Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC was the venue for this year’s ASCB|EMBO 2019 Meeting that took place on 7-11 December 2019. The American Society of Cell Biology conference, now merged with the EMBO meeting, is the largest yearly gathering for the cell imaging community, and GigaScience has attended in the past. […]
FAIRsharing Guestpost: What Criteria Matters with Data Repository Selection?
Scott Edmunds - November 29, 2019
As part of the FAIRsharing Community Network (see previous blog) and joint Force11 and Research Data Alliance (RDA) FAIRsharing Working Group we have been involved in efforts to develop a shared, cross-publisher list of recommended data deposition repositories. The first fruits of these are a preprint from the working group and DataCite (of which we […]
Seeing is Believing
Chris Armit - October 29, 2019
EMBL Heidelberg was the venue for the EMBL Symposium: Seeing is Believing – Imaging the Molecular Processes of Life that took place on 9-12 October 2019. This was the second EMBL meeting on imaging data we attending this year after VIZBI (see the write-up here), GigaScience Data Scientist Chris Armit was there and was astonished […]
Harvesting the final fruits of the plant tree of life
Scott Edmunds - October 24, 2019
Lessons learned in the evolution of large-scale data sharing New studies out today elucidate the framework for 1 billion years of green plant evolution. The work are the results of nearly a decades work from an international consortium of nearly 200 plant researchers generating gene sequences from more than 1100 plant species. Here and in […]
March of the Multiple Penguin Genomes
Scott Edmunds - September 18, 2019
The Penguin Genome Consortium sequences all 20 living penguin species genomes to understand the evolution of life on the ice, the results of this just out.
GigaScience at Neuroinformatics 2019
Chris Armit - September 7, 2019
This year’s Neuroinformatics 2019 meeting took place in the beautiful and historic city of Warszawa (Warsaw). Warszawa remains a pilgrimage city for scientists, with arguably its most famous resident Marie Sklodowska Curie being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person ever to win the Nobel Prize twice in two different […]
Sequencing The Eastern Yellow Robin: Sex chromosomes with a twist
Hans Zauner - September 4, 2019
An Australian team at Monash University discovered unusual, so-called neo-sex chromosomes in the genome of the Eastern Yellow Robin.