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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.
Enabling bioinformatics tools to smoke the peace pipe together
Peter Li - 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
1, 2, 3, 4 Get with the Wiki!
Scott Edmunds - July 25, 2012
Write up of ISMB 2012 and the ISCB competition to improve the existing Wikipedia articles about any aspect of computational biology
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 […]