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Promoting Data Citation in Nature (and Pushing Past Panda Problems)

- 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.

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GigaScience special session at ISCB-Asia on Workflows & Cloud for Reproducible Bioinformatics

- December 16, 2012

GigaScience organised a session last week at the ISCB-Asia/SCCG conference in Shenzhen on “Workflows and Cloud for Reproducible Bioinformatics”.

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This little piggy had a genome

- November 15, 2012

New research in GigaScience on the genome of the Wuzhishan minipig genome, a model breed for cloning and xenotransplantation research

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First methylated nematode genome and other new datasets in GigaDB

- October 17, 2012

Methylated nematode

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. […]

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Big-science goes local: democratization of sequencing demonstrated by the parrot genome

- September 28, 2012

Big-science goes local: read more on the democratization of sequencing demonstrated by the crowdfunded Puerto Rican parrot genome

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ECCB 2012: Bioinformatics with a Swiss Flavour

- September 12, 2012

Bioinformatics with a Swiss Flavour at ECCB 2012, where we have a write-up of the European ISCB conference on bioinformatics.

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Hello, Goodbye: new changes to the GigaScience team

- September 5, 2012

Big changes to the GigaScience Editorial team, with Alexandra Basford leaving, but Nicole Nogoy and Peter Li both joining teamGiga

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New paper in GigaScience: sequencing and the single-cell

- August 16, 2012

Single Cell Sequencing

First paper in GigaScience featuring the new technique of single-cell sequencing, used on muscle-invasive bladder transitional cell carcinoma.

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Enabling bioinformatics tools to smoke the peace pipe together

- August 6, 2012

Write-up by Peter Li of the Galaxy Community Conference in Chicago, also giving an overview of the many worklow management systems in play

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1, 2, 3, 4 Get with the Wiki!

- July 25, 2012

Write up of ISMB 2012 and the ISCB competition to improve the existing Wikipedia articles about any aspect of computational biology

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