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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.
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 […]
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