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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 […]
Systems, synthetics and semantics
Alexandra Basford - August 29, 2011
As those of you who have been paying attention well know, I am currently attending this year’s International Conference on Systems Biology (#ICSB) meeting in either Heidelberg or Mannheim (there’s ongoing debate about the meeting locale). The meeting opened yesterday with a plenary talk by Jean Peccoud talking about DNA “grammar,” making linguistic models of […]
Datacite summer meeting
Scott Edmunds - August 27, 2011
Working at a data center as big as the BGI, and launching a journal focused on maximizing data use, we have followed the many calls over the years for improved incentives and methods to aid and reward scientists in spending the considerable time and effort to share their data. The Datacite consortium has been key […]
Further adventures on the road…
Scott Edmunds - August 23, 2011
Our busy summer on the road continues, with further globetrotting to meet authors and collaborators, get the message about GigaScience out, and hopefully at the end of it get some papers. This week Laurie and Scott will be at the Datacite meeting in Berkeley, meeting the people helping us to produce our data-DOIs, learning about […]
Papers, papers, papers
Scott Edmunds - August 19, 2011
After last months website launch, and work progressing on our associated GigaScience database (including the addition of further datasets, such as the recently published Chinese Hamster Ovary cell-line genome) our next priority is the more traditional job of an editor: papers, papers papers. The journal has had some great feedback on twitter, on many blogs, […]
Notes from an E. coli “tweenome” – lessons learned from our first data DOI.
Scott Edmunds - August 3, 2011
Last week marked two important milestones in the deadly 2011 European E. coli 0104:H4 outbreak: the Robert Koch institute announcing the end of the outbreak, and the publication of several papers from the many groups sequencing the pathogen. This included a publication in the New England Journal of Medicine by groups from the BGI, UMC […]
IBRO and CNS*2011, or happy neuroscience days
Alexandra Basford - July 31, 2011
I just got back from attending the IBRO World Congress in Florence and the CNS*2011 meeting in Stockholm. All I can say is: lucky me. Okay, clearly that’s not all I can say. They were both wonderful meetings and it was great to see so much good neuroscience going on. IBRO had quite the turnout […]