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#FORCE2017 in Berlin: “Changing the Culture”
Hans Zauner - October 31, 2017
Write up by Hans Zauner of three eventful days in Berlin last week for FORCE2017 discuss ideas, ongoing projects and future developments around Open Science
Open Science is FAIRly easy
Hans Zauner - October 19, 2017
A new commentary in GigaScience demonstrates the use of the FAIR principles to enable Open Science. We explan more here.
#PeerRevWk17 Update: Peer Review Week goes Transparent and Interactive
Scott Edmunds - September 19, 2017
On the first day of Peer Review Week 2017 we co-hosted a webinar discussing preprints and open peer Review with our friends at AcademicKarma.
Research Parasites Wanted. Q&A with Casey Greene & Brian Byrd
Scott Edmunds - September 14, 2017
Q&A with Casey Greene & Brian Byrd on the Research Parasites Award, and why they are promoting secondary reuse of research data (and Symbionts)
Bringing Wildlife Forensics into the Omics Era. Q&A with Alfred Arulandhu and Martijn Staats
Scott Edmunds - September 12, 2017
Q&A with Alfred Arulandhu and Martijn Staats on Bringing Wildlife Forensics into the Omics Era with their CITESspeciesDetect pipeline
Guest Blog from Huanming Yang on using the human genome for big-data storage
Scott Edmunds - September 7, 2017
Guest Blog from BGI founder Huanming Yang on synthetic biology, DNA synthesis and using the human genome for big-data storage
Bohemian Bashfully. Baroque birthdays and bingo in Prague.
Scott Edmunds - July 31, 2017
Celebrating our birthday at ISMB in Prague, ISMB2017 was a particularly memorable and important one as 5th birthday of GigaScience and 25th edition of the ISMB.
Data Intensive Software Publishing & Sailing The Code Ocean. Q&A With Ruibang Luo.
Scott Edmunds - June 27, 2017
GigaScience is always trying to push the boundaries of how we disseminate reproducible research, and to adapt to the challenges of dealing with experiments become more data-intensive. We now showcase a new reproducible research platform we’ve been testing called Code Ocean, and have a Q&A with our Author Ruibang Luo on his experiences using it. […]
Enter the GigaScience Prize Track at ICG-12
Scott Edmunds - May 29, 2017
Call for Submissions for the GigaScience Prize Track, where you can win prizes and flights to join us in Shenzhen for BGI’s ICG-12 conference.
The genome of a shape shifting butterfly
Hans Zauner - May 10, 2017
A new genome sequence of the butterfly Bicyclus anynana helps understand a fascinating shapeshifting butterfly species that can modify its morphology in response to environmental clues.