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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.
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