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A GigaGathering at ICG8 in the era of big data and crowdsourcing
Nicole Nogoy - 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.
Release the Bats! New Halloween #opendata treat in GigaDB
Scott Edmunds - 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).
The cyber-centipede: giving online species descriptions a leg up
Scott Edmunds - 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
Open Data For The Win!
Scott Edmunds - October 2, 2013
Depositing data in GigaDB helped authors win BMC Open Data Award by boosting confidence in unexpected epigenomics research findings
Extended Q&A with Assemblathon2 Author Keith Bradnam
Scott Edmunds - August 20, 2013
Here we have an extended directors cut version Q&A with Assemblathon2 Author Keith Bradnam on his assembly benchmarking competition paper
Save the trees. Play facebook games.
Scott Edmunds - 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
More on our ISMB workshop: What Bioinformaticians need to know about digital publishing beyond the PDF
Scott Edmunds - August 9, 2013
More on our ISMB workshop in Berlin on “What Bioinformaticians need to know about digital publishing beyond the PDF”
Bioinformaticians breaking down barriers in Berlin
Scott Edmunds - August 1, 2013
Bioinformaticians breaking down barriers in Berlin, write-up of the ISMB and BOSC2013 meetings in Berlin (also our 1st birthday)
Genome assembly in the spotlight
Scott Edmunds - July 25, 2013
Assemblathon 2 is the biggest ever contest to put genome assemblers through their paces, and we cover the new publication in GigaScience
GigaBirthday at ISMB
Scott Edmunds - July 19, 2013
GigaScience reaches its 1st anniversary at ISMB in Berlin, and achieves several milestones in changing how research is published