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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.
A Passion for Morphing Passiflora Leaves: Author Q&A with Daniel Chitwood
Nicole Nogoy - May 4, 2017
Author Q&A with Daniel Chitwood and call for papers for our plant phenomics series, talking about his passion for Morphing Passiflora Leaves
Guardians of the Galaxy Workflow
Scott Edmunds - April 28, 2017
The GigaScience Galaxy series has just published its 12th paper, and we cover the GCC2017 Galaxy Community Conference in Montpellier
ShoRtcut from bioRxiv to GigaScience
Hans Zauner - March 23, 2017
Authors can now submit their bioRxiv preprints directly to GigaScience via the biorXiv b2j “bioRxiv to journal” platform, at the push of a button