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Guest posting: Let’s crowdfund a fern genome that will blow your mind
Nicole Nogoy - 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 […]
Publish Data: Fight World Hunger
Scott Edmunds - 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
The Early Earthworm Catches on to Full Data Release
Scott Edmunds - May 19, 2014
New research and data published in both GigaScience and PLOS ONE provides complete open access to detailed microCT 3D images of earthworms
The Latest Weapon in Publishing Data: the Polar Bear
Scott Edmunds - May 14, 2014
The Latest Weapon in Publishing Data is the Polar Bear genome, demonstrating that data citation is possible by the big publishers such as Cell Press
From function “unknown” to “known”: First papers in our Automated Function Prediction series
Nicole Nogoy - April 28, 2014
From function “unknown” to “known”: First papers out now from our Automated Function Prediction series linked to the ISMB AFP-SIG
Guest posting: Many journals have determined that they can assist in data sharing
Scott Edmunds - April 23, 2014
Today we have a guest posting from F1000’s Iain Hrynaszkiewicz covering the topic of journals role in medical data sharing
Q&A on dynamic documents
Scott Edmunds - April 16, 2014
Q&A with the reviewers of our reproducible CARMEN paper Thomas Wachtler and Christophe Pouzat on Knitr and pushbutton papers
CARMEN, reproducible research and push-button papers
Scott Edmunds - March 26, 2014
Q&A with Stephen Eglen on CARMEN, reproducible research and push-button data papers with neurophysiology data
Having a finger on the pulse of data citation
Scott Edmunds - February 28, 2014
Endorsing data citation at the Data Citation Principles workshop at the IDCC meeting in San Francisco and new data and functionality in GigaDB
Continuing our #usegalaxy series at the 2014 Galaxy Community Conference
Scott Edmunds - February 20, 2014
Overview and call for papers on continuing our #usegalaxy series at the upcoming GCC2014 2014 Galaxy Community Conference in Baltimore