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CUDDELing up to metabolomics in Hong Kong
Peter Li - January 22, 2018
A highlight of 2017 was a 2nd GigaScience hackathon in ourHK office from a metabolomics project called CUDDEL, all thanks to BBSRC China Partnering Award
… and a Happy New Year
Hans Zauner - December 19, 2017
It’s time to review the highlights of GigaScience’s 2017 in Hans Zauner’s traditional end of year summary of what happened over the last 12 months
Citizen Smith goes to Nairobi. Taking Citizen Science to the UN
Scott Edmunds - December 15, 2017
Taking Citizen Science to the UN, with the launch of CitizenScience.Asia at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi
A Christmas Gift To You From GigaScience. Scientists have Unwrapped the Reindeer Genome.
Scott Edmunds - December 12, 2017
A New High-Quality Reindeer Genome Sequence Provides Resources for Studying Evolution, Domestication, and Adaptation to Arctic Climate. But not the secrets of Christmas.
And the winner is? Our #ICG12 prize track on GigaTV
Scott Edmunds - November 27, 2017
Last month was the 7th consecutive year we’ve attended our co-publisher BGI’s annual ICG (International Conference on Genomics) gathering in Shenzhen. While we’ve assisted in organising a number of fun thematic tracks over the years including ICG-8’s crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and open science session, and ICG-10’s community genomics session, for ICG12 this year we decided to […]
#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