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GigaMetabolomics Strikes Again: More BYO Data Parties and a Thematic Series
Nicole Nogoy - March 13, 2016
We are continuing our support for metabolomics open data and training with a 2nd BBSRC UK-China collaboration grant focussing on metabolomics data
Data Driven Conservation. Q&A with Taras Oleksyk on ConGen2016
Scott Edmunds - March 8, 2016
Conservation research is being dragged into the 21st century with efforts such as the ConGen training workshop. Deputy director of the program Taras Oleksyk tells us more in this Q&A.
Guest Blog: Mind the Zika Data Gap.
Scott Edmunds - February 15, 2016
Following his previous insight into the Ebola epidemic, we have another data oriented guest posting from Michael Dean, this time pooling together various available data to present a non-specialist view of the Zika crisis.
Encouraging community curation through competition
Chris Hunter - February 4, 2016
As part of this years BioCuration 2016 event in Geneva we are launching an annotation competition: the Giga-Curation Challenge.
Crossing the Genome Finishing Line – News from our Optical Mapping Series
Scott Edmunds - January 28, 2016
Update on the latest papers in our new Optical Mapping series, and discussion on the increasing move towards “finishing” genomes.
We Wish You a GigaChristmas: A 2015 Wrap-Up
Nicole Nogoy - December 14, 2015
An end-of-year Christmassy 2015 wrap-up from Nicole Nogoy on everything that has happened to GigaScience in the last year
Community Genomes on GigaTV
Scott Edmunds - December 10, 2015
GigaScience helped organise the Community Genomes track covering crowdfunding and citizen use of genomics data at the 10th International Conference on Genomics in Shenzhen. Read more and watch the talks in this write up.
The Importance of Annotation: A Q&A with Hypothes.is Director of Biosciences, Maryann Martone
Nicole Nogoy - December 1, 2015
Maryann Martone is Director of Biosciences for Hypothes.is and current President of FORCE11, an organization advancing scholarly communication. She tells us about a new open annotation tool, Hypothes.is, and why the ability to annotate scholarly objects is so important.
GigaScience Gets a Service. What’s new in GigaDB?
Chris Hunter - November 26, 2015
After a solid year of behind-the-scenes efforts, the latest version of our GigaDB database rolled out last month. While superficially it may not look that different, a lot has changed under the hood. To explain more our Lead Curator Chris Hunter talks through some of the main feature changes.
Brooding Brittle Star Babies. Q&A with Jannes Landschoff
Scott Edmunds - November 17, 2015
Q&A with Jannes Landschoff, first author on our latest Data Note presenting 100GB of high-resolution 3D data from live-bearing brittle stars. Jannes tells us about how he became interested in brittle star copulation, the advantages of using micro computed tomography in morphology studies, and gives an African perspective on the challenges of dealing with big-data.