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

Scott Edmunds - 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

Scott Edmunds - 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

Nicole Nogoy - 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.

Scott Edmunds - 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?

Chris Hunter - 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

Nicole Nogoy - July 3, 2014

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

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 […]

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