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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. […]
Big-science goes local: democratization of sequencing demonstrated by the parrot genome
Scott Edmunds - September 28, 2012
Big-science goes local: read more on the democratization of sequencing demonstrated by the crowdfunded Puerto Rican parrot genome
ECCB 2012: Bioinformatics with a Swiss Flavour
Scott Edmunds - September 12, 2012
Bioinformatics with a Swiss Flavour at ECCB 2012, where we have a write-up of the European ISCB conference on bioinformatics.
Hello, Goodbye: new changes to the GigaScience team
Scott Edmunds - September 5, 2012
Big changes to the GigaScience Editorial team, with Alexandra Basford leaving, but Nicole Nogoy and Peter Li both joining teamGiga
New paper in GigaScience: sequencing and the single-cell
Scott Edmunds - August 16, 2012
First paper in GigaScience featuring the new technique of single-cell sequencing, used on muscle-invasive bladder transitional cell carcinoma.