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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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Bioinformaticians breaking down barriers in Berlin

- August 1, 2013

Bioinformaticians breaking down barriers in Berlin, write-up of the ISMB and BOSC2013 meetings in Berlin (also our 1st birthday)

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Genome assembly in the spotlight

- 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

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GigaBirthday at ISMB

- July 19, 2013

GigaScience reaches its 1st anniversary at ISMB in Berlin, and achieves several milestones in changing how research is published

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#usegalaxy lights up northern skies

- July 9, 2013

#usegalaxy lights up northern skies, with the GCC2013 Galaxy Community Conference hosted in Oslo Norway this year

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Automated function prediction – call for papers for a special series

- July 1, 2013

Automated function prediction – announcing a call for papers for a special series based on the ISMB Special Interest Group

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