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Guest Posting: Help Crowdfund the “Community Cactus”
Scott Edmunds - March 13, 2015
Peng Jiang and Hui Guo from the University of Georgia provide a guest post covering their crowdfunding efforts to sequence the first cactus genome.
GWAS Reloaded: extended Q&A with PLINK1.9 author Chris Chang
Scott Edmunds - February 26, 2015
The software application PLINK is one of the most widely used tools in bioinformatics, particularly for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that look at genetic variants in different individuals to see if any variant is associated with a trait. With the advent of the thousand dollar genome, the computational demands being made on such programs are […]
Open Data Publishing Goes New Zealand: A Cross Posting For Creative Commons Aotearoa
Nicole Nogoy - February 10, 2015
Our New Zealand based Editor Nicole Nogoy was asked by Creative Commons Aotearoa to write a guest blog on open licensing from a Kiwi perspective
Synthetic Genomics: Redesign and synthesis of the first multicellular eukaryotic genome
Scott Edmunds - January 30, 2015
Guest post from researchers at BGI and Edinburgh University on where organismal scale “synthetic genomics” is going.
Guest Blog: The Ebola Epidemic revisited – where are we in 2015?
Scott Edmunds - January 15, 2015
Michael Dean from the Center of Cancer Research at the NIH uses his data oriented approach to give an update of where the Ebola epidemic is in 2015
A Flock of Bird Data Comes to Roost
Scott Edmunds - December 12, 2014
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. —Attributed to Charles Darwin In 1839 Charles Darwin published his famous account of the 5-year second voyage of the HMS Beagle, describing the flora and fauna he encountered surveying South America and circumnavigating the […]
Getting Techy With It: GigaScience Technology Update 2014
Nicole Nogoy - November 27, 2014
GigaScience Technology Update 2014, outlining the many upcoming technical developments, including some published examples that showcase them.
Publishing our first virtual box of delights to aid the fight against heart disease
Scott Edmunds - November 12, 2014
Publishing our first virtual machine to aid the fight against heart disease, involving a package of MRI data and algorithms on a virtual hard disk
Secure Genetic Data Moves into the Fast Lane of Discovery
Scott Edmunds - November 6, 2014
Overview of GWATCH (Genome-Wide Association Tracks Chromosome Highway), a new tool just published in GigaScience
Uncovering the tangled roots of plant evolution
Scott Edmunds - October 29, 2014
Using big data to understand the tree of life New work just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and GigaScience reveals important details about key transitions in the evolution of plant life on our planet, and present a huge cache of computational results, data and tools for plant biologists. In closing […]