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Community Genomes: From the Peoples Parrot, to “Crowdfernding”.

- September 30, 2014

An overview of Community Genomes: providing examples of crowdfunded and sourced genomics projects from the Peoples Parrot to “Crowdfernding”.

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All systems go at ICSB 2014 and the Great GigaScience and Galaxy (G3) workshop

- September 24, 2014

All systems go at ICSB 2014 and ou Great GigaScience and Galaxy (G3) workshop we co-organised in Melbourne

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Ain’t No Party like a Bring Your Own Data Party!

- August 22, 2014

Ain’t No Party like a Bring Your Own Data Party: write-up of the BYOD workshop we organised in Hong Kong bringing together data producers, modellers, curators and database experts

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Continuing the push beyond static documents. ISMB, and more on our “What Bioinformaticians need to know about digital publishing beyond the PDF2” workshop

- July 31, 2014

Write-up on ISMB2014 in Boston and more on our “What Bioinformaticians need to know about the digital publishing beyond the PDF2” workshop we organised there

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Guest posting: Optical Mapping allows comprehensiveness and scalability that modern sequencing cannot provide

- July 21, 2014

Guest posting from David Schwartz on how Optical Mapping allows comprehensiveness and scalability that modern sequencing cannot provide

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Bioinformatics, Birthdays, and Booze at Boston BOSC.

- July 17, 2014

Bioinformatics, Birthdays, and Booze at Boston BOSC: a write-up of BOSC2014 and the BMC Open Data Award for Assemblathon2 paper

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New GigaDB Dataset: Ever wondered whats in your gut?

- July 7, 2014

Ever wondered whats in your gut? A new GigaDB dataset provides the most comprehensive catalogue of genes in any single microbiome to date.

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GigaScience – making open peer review more open: Q&A with Publons co-founder, Andrew Preston

- July 3, 2014

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At GigaScience, one of our major goals is to improve transparency and reproducibility of research and one of the ways we do this is through open peer review. After the unusual “meta peer review” of our Assemblathon2 paper (see more in biome), we thought our peer review couldn’t get more open, but a small New […]

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Guest posting: Let’s crowdfund a fern genome that will blow your mind

- June 16, 2014

Following our efforts encouraging open-science projects, such as the community funded “Peoples Parrot” and OpenAshDieback, today we have a guest posting from Fay-Wei Li and Kathleen Pryer from the Department of Biology at Duke University covering a crowdfunding effort to sequence the Azolla genome.  They have already raised over $4,000 and have 25 days remaining until […]

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Publish Data: Fight World Hunger

- May 29, 2014

3000 Rice Genome Sequences from the Rice3K project making up 13.4TB of data are being made publicly available on World Hunger Day

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