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InCoB/ISCB-Asia: keynotes and curation
Alexandra Basford - December 5, 2011
I recently returned from the InCoB/ISCB-Asia meeting. The meeting officially ended a couple of days ago but I am still digesting the good food, the good conversations and the good science, all of which I know will be with me a good while. In the interest of avoiding a copious monograph, I’ll try to stick […]
GigaScience at #ICG6: announcing the release of GigaDB and new datasets
Scott Edmunds - November 19, 2011
Another busy week for the GigaScience team, with the release of a new-look database, more datasets, and a number of talks and announcements at BGI’s annual International Conference of Genomics in Shenzhen. It was a great (if exhausting) meeting this year, with the state-of-the art in genomics science on display, announcements of three exciting "Million […]
Genomicists go Shenzhen: GigaScience at the International Conference on Genomics VI
Scott Edmunds - November 11, 2011
After many months on the road visiting conferences it’s nice when one comes to you. This weekend marks BGI’s annual big bash: the 6th International Conference on Genomics, this year held in the mock-Swiss splendor of the Shenzhen OCT East resort. With a great line-up featuring many of our editorial board members (including Stephan Beck, […]
GigaData news: Macaque DOIs published in Nature Biotechnology
Scott Edmunds - October 21, 2011
This week marks another success for the fledgling practice of data citation, with two datasets from our GigaScience database published in Nature Biotechnology. The genomes sequenced by our colleagues at the BGI for the Cynomolgus and Chinese rhesus macaques were initially released DOIs at our launch in July, and were amongst the first (at the […]
ICHG2011: Genetics and Genomics Gets Personal
Scott Edmunds - October 19, 2011
GigaScience was on hand to witness plenty of lively discussion last week at the annual American Society of Human Genetics jamboree: the International Conference of Human Genetics in Montreal. As always, the meeting had a strong medical genetics presence but the rapid growth and uptake of genomics technologies in the field produced much fascinating work […]
GigaScience in the press (and still on the road)…
Scott Edmunds - October 4, 2011
We at GigaScience always appreciate good press, and on top of the welcome coverage on blogs (e.g. this in Annals of Botany) and twitter, we are pleased with the profile of the journal in this months Bio-IT world (especially coming on top of the coverage of our database in the previous issue). The article is […]
Beyond the Genome: taking GigaScience into the Clouds
Scott Edmunds - September 20, 2011
With the summers conference season over, GigaScience are still keeping mobile, and this week Laurie is taking in “Beyond the Genome”, our BioMed Central stablemates Genome Biology and Genome Medicine meeting in Washington DC. Now in its second year, and its great line-up voted by Genome Web as one of the top-3 genomics meetings, by […]
HUPO 2011: lessons for Proteomics from the Genomics Tsunami
Scott Edmunds - September 13, 2011
Our whistlestop summer conference tour circumnavigating the globe has come to a jetlagged end, with the final conference being last weeks HUPO (Human Proteomics Organisation) congress in Geneva. With it being the 10th anniversary meeting it was a good opportunity to look back on how Proteomics has progressed over the past decade, from it’s early […]
Exercises in blogging at #solo11. Show me the data!
Scott Edmunds - September 3, 2011
Latest stop on the GigaScience magical mystery conference tour is Science Online London, and this year they have tried to make the format more interactive by organizing several interactive workshops and breakout sessions, including one on blogging that this is posting is a product of. One of the main themes running through the meeting has […]
The complexity of life
Alexandra Basford - September 2, 2011
ICSB 2011 left me with a greater than ever appreciation for, to borrow from the title of the last plenary session, the complexity of life. I was impressed by the increasingly complex and explanative models that are being built, and faster and more detailed imaging methods under development, not to mention the exciting new applications […]