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FUNC on Safari: the 6th International Conference on Functional Metagenomics (FMG24)
Chris Hunter - June 26, 2024
FUNC on Safari: Functional Metagenomics conference 2024 at Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa (2nd – 5th June 2024) GigaScience Press were once again proud sponsors of the Functional Metagenomics conference (FMG24). Functional Metagenomics is an area of interest for the journal, particularly via our MetaFUNC thematic series. This, the 6th installment of the conference, was held in […]
An artificial sugar beet for the eyes of Artificial Intelligence
Hans Zauner - June 21, 2024
Plant phenotyping – the science of gathering precise information and measurements on plants – has seen massive improvements recently, and the combination of sensor technology and AI methods will continue to change the way crops are assessed and improved. A new article in GigaScience demonstrates where this is going: Jonas Bömer and colleagues at the […]
The Utility and Danger of AI in Scientific Publishing: Riddles of the Sphinx – GigaScience at WCRI 2024
Chris Armit - June 9, 2024
The 8th World Congress on Research Integrity (WCRI) took place in Athens, Greece from 1st-5th June. GigaScience Press are regular attendees of this conference, and this year our organisation was represented by GigaScience Editor-in-Chief Scott Edmunds, Executive Editor Nicole Nogoy, and Data Scientist Chris Armit. A major theme of the conference was the double-edged sword […]
Transparency FTW! LLMs, OpenBoxScience and GetFreeCopy
Scott Edmunds - May 30, 2024
As an Open Science publisher we’ve pushed for transparency and access in the research that we disseminate, and in GigaByte journal we’ve just published a new open-source software tool “GetFreeCopy” that is demonstrative and addresses many features of this. To tell us more we have a Q&A with lead author Kuan-lin Huang, an Assistant Professor […]
Publishing Citizen Science Data: Q&A with the Hong Kong Jellyfish Project
Scott Edmunds - May 20, 2024
Today we publish a new Data Release presenting a dataset of jellyfish sightings collected by citizen scientists from 2021 through 2023 within Hong Kong waters. This is the first example where our curation team have worked with a Citizen Science project to share their observations in the GBIF biodiversity database. Here we have a Q&A […]
DNA Day Launch for Hong Kong’s Moonshot for Biology
Scott Edmunds - April 25, 2024
The first emblematic species sequenced by the Hong Kong Biodiversity Genomics Consortium are published to coincide with International DNA Day. Joining a global “moonshot for biology” that aims to sequence, catalogue, and characterize the genomes of all of Earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity. A significant portion of modern knowledge in biology has emerged through sequencing the genetic […]
AIBC – India. Biocuration, long days, even longer traffic jams.
Chris Hunter - March 26, 2024
The Annual International Biocuration Conference (AIBC) was held for the first in India, at the Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC), Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad and co-hosted by the Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus. As usual, GigaDB had representation at the event (see write-ups of many previous meetings here), […]
Inspiring Inclusion: The 9th Annual Women in Science Conference
Nicole Nogoy - March 8, 2024
The 9th Women in Science Conference took place in Shenzhen. Below are some highlights from the conference co-organized by our Publishing Director, Laurie Goodman, and Co-Chaired by Doris Yang, from BGI-College. Today, March 8, 2024 marks International Women’s Day – where women’s achievement and inclusivity is celebrated. Inspired by the collective awareness of all, […]
Citizen Scientists can see the wood for the trees
Hans Zauner - March 6, 2024
Few countries have a biodiversity that’s comparable to Brazil’s, including plant-based food sources that are little known elsewhere. Even in big cities you may pick all kinds of fruit directly from the tree, which can be both tasty and also interesting for the botanist. The Citizen Science project “Pomar Urbano” collects data on urban fruit-bearing […]
Reflect, Enjoy, Do something! Lessons from the International Digital Curation Conference
Chris Hunter - March 1, 2024
Kevin Ashley’s (DCC director) closing remark at the IDCC (International Digital Curation Conference) 2024 meeting was “Reflect, Enjoy, Do something!”. Hopefully you will enjoy my doing something. The International Digital Curation Conference meeting in The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 19-22 Feb 2024, marks their first in-person meeting for 4 years (and an even longer […]