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A conference, neuroimaging, and the wealth of computational neuroscience
Alexandra Basford - June 18, 2012
A write-up by Alexandra Basford of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM2012) in Beijing
Adventures in Data Citation: sorghum as a standard for data release
Scott Edmunds - May 11, 2012
A correspondence we have contributed to has just been published in the BMC Research Notes “Data standardization, sharing and publication series” on the adventures in data-citation and data-release practices surrounding the Sorghum genome that is available in our GigaDB database and that was published last year in Genome Biology. We use Sorghum as an example […]
Shanghai (Epigenomics) Surprise
Scott Edmunds - April 30, 2012
A write-up of the state of play in epigenomics, from the Shanghai International Conference of Epigenetics in Development and Disease (SICEDD)
The State of the Curation Nation
Scott Edmunds - April 3, 2012
State of the Curation Nation: read our write up of the Biocuration 2012 meeting in Washington DC.
Genomic Standards Community Go Shenzhen: GigaScience session overview from #GSC13
Scott Edmunds - March 20, 2012
An overview of the GigaScience session at the 13th Genomics Standards Consortium meeting in Shenzhen #GSC13
GigaScience at the Genomic Standards Consortium meeting – call for papers for a special series
Scott Edmunds - March 4, 2012
To tie in with the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC13) meeting in Shenzhen, GigaScience is launching a thematic series highlighting best practice in genomics
Follow us (on everything)
Scott Edmunds - February 27, 2012
Follow us on our many social media accounts as we participate in the enomic Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Shenzhen (GSC13)
What links RNA-Editing, Data Citation and Ancient Chinese Emperors?
Scott Edmunds - February 17, 2012
An incremental step has been achieved for the adoption of data citation, Nature Biotech included one of our dataset DOIs in their references for the first time.
GigaScience Journal Part of Global Data-Sharing Effort: New Standards Allow Disparate Data Sets to Integrate
Scott Edmunds - January 28, 2012
GigaScience now part of global data-sharing effort, new ISA-TAB standards allow disparate data aets to integrate
Data Citation Enters the (year of the) Dragon
Scott Edmunds - January 23, 2012
As we enter the year of the dragon lots of updates and news on how Data Citation is growing as a movement, with meetings and journal uptake.