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Fermenting a Reproducible Research Revolution
Scott Edmunds - July 30, 2015
With greater awareness in the difficulties in making scientific research more reproducible, numerous technical fixes are being suggested to move publishing away from static and often un-reproducible papers to more reproducible digital objects that better fit 21st century technology. New research demonstrates one potential approach through publishing open data and code in containerized form using docker, and also allowing scientists to tackle climate change, through better understanding of the production of biofuels.
Birthdays and Homecomings at ISMB-ECCB in Dublin
Scott Edmunds - July 19, 2015
More on our birthday and bioinformatics adventures in Dublin for the annual gathering of the worlds compuational biology community: ISMB
Open Bioinformatics in The Irish Free Software State
Scott Edmunds - July 12, 2015
BOSC2015 has in Dublin has just ended, so we look back over the meeting at some of the talks we enjoyed, and projects we have participated in.
Great Lakes of Data: More with Pat Soranno on the challenges of data-integration in ecology
Scott Edmunds - July 3, 2015
A follow-up from Pat Soranno, sharing her thoughts on reproducible ecology and the challenges it presents.
Sequencing Order: B10K Reaching for the Skies to Decode All Bird Genomes
Scott Edmunds - June 4, 2015
Announcing this week the B10K project, Guojie Zhang explains how they plan to sequence all the 10,000 bird genomes.
Community Microbiomes: Chatting Cat Scat with Kittybiome’s Holly Ganz
Scott Edmunds - May 26, 2015
All Cats (Microbiomes) are Grey? Regular readers will have seen our interest in “community genome” projects, supported by crowdfunding and alternative means (fashion shows in case of the “peoples parrot”), and we’ve been pleased to see the Azolla fern and Cactus genome projects that we published guest GigaBlog postings from both achieve their funding targets. […]
GigaScience Pushes Metabolomics Open Data & Training
Scott Edmunds - May 13, 2015
GigaScience pushes metabolomics Open Data & training, with a new BBSRC grant and our metabolomics series launching
BioCuration Behind the Bamboo Curtain
Scott Edmunds - April 28, 2015
Write up of the ISB Biocuration2015 meeting in Beijing that we attended, and leaving a biocuration legacy in China.
A firsthand perspective of trialling mobile DNA sequencing
Andy Kilianski and Sam Minot - March 27, 2015
Sam Minot from Signature Science, LLC and Andy Kilianski from the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center are part of a team that has been trialling a new palm-sized DNA sequencer to test whether it can characterize viruses and bacteria. Their findings, published in GigaScience suggest the device could have potential for disease diagnosis in the field.
‘Open Source, Open Science’ meeting report – March 2015
Amye Kenall - March 24, 2015
Guest post from Amye Kenall: On March 19th and 20th, the Center for Open Science hosted a small meeting in Charlottesville, VA, convened by COS and co-organized by Kaitlin Thaney and Titus Brown (UC Davis). People working across the open science ecosystem attended, including publishers, infrastructure non-profits, public policy experts, community builders, and academics.