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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.
Sharing Genomic Data in the Precision Medicine Era
Scott Edmunds - October 9, 2015
GigaBlog covers human genomic data, from the ASHG meeting in Baltimore to our “Hacking the human genome” event in Hong Kong.
#peerrevwk15 News: Crediting our Amazing Reviewers with DOIs
Scott Edmunds - October 1, 2015
For Peer Review Week 2015 #peerrevwk15 we have an announcement on crediting our Amazing Reviewers with DOIs
Putting credit back into the hands of researchers
Amye Kenall - September 28, 2015
Today, GigaScience launched a project providing an alternative way to give authors credit for their work, contributing more to collaboration, transparency and better data. Amye Kenall tells us more about what this is and how it works.
Neuroinformatics Gets Tropical Down Under
Nicole Nogoy - September 16, 2015
Neuroinformatics goes tropical and Nicole Nogoy gives a write-up of this year’s INCF Neuroinformatics 2015 meeting in Cairns, Australia
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.