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The FENS Forum: A Good Time to Be in Spain
Alexandra Basford - July 19, 2012
We have a write-up by Alexandra Basford of the 8th FENS forum of Neuroscience hosted in Barcelona Spain during the “year of neuroscience”
Searching for the (Open) Source at Long Beach
Scott Edmunds - July 16, 2012
As a project with the aim of revolutionizing data dissemination and use, on top of promoting open-access and open-data, open-source is a key part of the open-science equation, and this week GigaScience has been at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC2012 – program here) in Long Beach. Sponsored by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (O|B|F), BOSC […]
GigaScience launches: overseeing the transition from papers to “executable research objects”
Scott Edmunds - July 12, 2012
GigaScience launches overseeing the transition from papers to “executable research objects” with our new publication model including GigaDB integration
Lessons From the “Data Publication Spring”: DataCite Summer 2012
Scott Edmunds - June 29, 2012
Lessons From the “Data Publication Spring”:, a write up of the DataCite Summer 2012 meeting in Copenhagen.
The (genomics) view from the 57th floor
Scott Edmunds - June 22, 2012
A write-up of the Bio-IT World Asia meeting in Singapore, giving a flavour of what is happening in genomics and bioinformatics in Asia.
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