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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 […]
Guest Blog: The 2014 Ebola Epidemic: Approaches and resources to slow the spread of infection
Scott Edmunds - October 27, 2014
The Ebola pandemic presents one of the most terrifying world health crises in modern times, with devastating consequences in Western Africa [as this goes to press there are now over 10,000 infections and almost 5,000 deaths]. There is a vast amount of data on this crisis available in rapidly published articles and on the internet […]
Guest Blog: Challenges and opportunities with sharing neuroimaging data
Nicole Nogoy - October 19, 2014
Here we present a guest blog by our Editorial Board Member Russell Poldrack, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, who highlights the challenges and opportunities surrounding imaging data to enable the neuroscience community to “stand on the shoulders of giants”, and an announcement on our new fMRI series. The sharing of neuroimaging data is an […]
Community Genomes: From the Peoples Parrot, to “Crowdfernding”.
Scott Edmunds - September 30, 2014
An overview of Community Genomes: providing examples of crowdfunded and sourced genomics projects from the Peoples Parrot to “Crowdfernding”.