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GigaScience goes CC4. A handy cut out and keep guide to our licenses

- December 19, 2013

A handy cut out and keep guide to how we use creative commons (CC) licenses for all of our content, textual, data and blogs

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Moving pictures of the Microbiome in GigaScience

- November 27, 2013

Moving pictures of the Microbiome in GigaScience, all hail the EMPeror, a new tool for visualizing high-throughput microbial community data.

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Calling all papers for the Automated Function Prediction series

- November 18, 2013

Announcing a new thematic series of research highlighting automated function prediction using sequence-based methods, function from genomic information, molecular interactions, structure, use of combined methods, and phylogeny-based methods.

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A GigaGathering at ICG8 in the era of big data and crowdsourcing

- November 5, 2013

A GigaGathering at ICG8 in the era of big data and crowdsourcing, covering the special track we organised on crowdsourcing and open science.

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Release the Bats! New Halloween #opendata treat in GigaDB

- October 31, 2013

As a special Halloween treat we’ve added three bat genomes to the GigaDB database: Brandt’s bat (Myotis brandtii), the Black Flying Fox (Pteropus alecto) and the Mouse-eared bat (Myotis davidii).

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The cyber-centipede: giving online species descriptions a leg up

- October 28, 2013

Announcing a new collaboration with Pensoft to create a multi-dimensional species description for the cyber-centipede using microCT, sequincing data and more

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Open Data For The Win!

- October 2, 2013

Depositing data in GigaDB helped authors win BMC Open Data Award by boosting confidence in unexpected epigenomics research findings

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Extended Q&A with Assemblathon2 Author Keith Bradnam

- August 20, 2013

Here we have an extended directors cut version Q&A with Assemblathon2 Author Keith Bradnam on his assembly benchmarking competition paper

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Save the trees. Play facebook games.

- August 13, 2013

Find out about a new Facebook game called Fraxinus that uses and analyses real genetic data from the fungus causing ash dieback disease

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More on our ISMB workshop: What Bioinformaticians need to know about digital publishing beyond the PDF

- August 9, 2013

More on our ISMB workshop in Berlin on “What Bioinformaticians need to know about digital publishing beyond the PDF”

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