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Call for papers for a special GCC2013 Galaxy series
Scott Edmunds - April 5, 2013
Announcing our Call for papers for a special Galaxy series launched at the GCC2013 Galaxy Community Conference meeting in Oslo, Norway
Q&A with Xin Zhou, author of our insect “squishome” paper.
Scott Edmunds - April 2, 2013
Q&A with Xin Zhou, author of our insect “squishome” paper, talking high-throughput metabarcoding of bulk arthropod samples.
New in GigaScience: the Squishome
Scott Edmunds - March 27, 2013
Presenting a new “squishomics” approach for understanding biodiversity, using DNA-soup made from crushed-up insects and the latest sequencing technology
Tweenome on Film: Excellent Video on Crowdsourcing Killer Outbreaks
Scott Edmunds - February 21, 2013
The BBSRC has just released an excellent video and article on crowdsourcing killer disease outbreaks very relevant to our recent commentary and blog postings on the OpenAshDB
Open Science versus Ash Dieback (and the Tweenome revisited)
Scott Edmunds - February 13, 2013
Open Science and crowdsourcing versus Ash Dieback (and the Tweenome revisited, with and update on our E. coli genome datasharing adventures)
Opening peer-review: our new paper on SOAPdenovo2 shows how it works
Scott Edmunds - December 27, 2012
Our new paper on the SOAPdenovo2 genome assembly tool shows how our open peer review system works, adding transparency to scientific publishing
Promoting Data Citation in Nature (and Pushing Past Panda Problems)
Scott Edmunds - December 21, 2012
A brief history of data citation, and an overview of our battles getting DOIs cited in the references of a number of journals.
GigaScience special session at ISCB-Asia on Workflows & Cloud for Reproducible Bioinformatics
Scott Edmunds - December 16, 2012
GigaScience organised a session last week at the ISCB-Asia/SCCG conference in Shenzhen on “Workflows and Cloud for Reproducible Bioinformatics”.
This little piggy had a genome
Scott Edmunds - November 15, 2012
New research in GigaScience on the genome of the Wuzhishan minipig genome, a model breed for cloning and xenotransplantation research
First methylated nematode genome and other new datasets in GigaDB
Scott Edmunds - October 17, 2012
The worm that turned (epigenetics) GigaDB, GigaScience’s associated database, has had a number of new datasets just added, many for data types previously not hosted. Today marks the publication of new research in our sister BMC journal Genome Biology shaking up the epigenetics field by shattering the assumption that DNA methylation is absent in nematodes. […]