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Data Citation December

- December 23, 2011

More on DataCite, Data Citation standards, and the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) in Bristol

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HVP Beijing: dealing with variation

- December 11, 2011

Write up of the Human Variome Project meeting in Beijing (HVP Beijing), addressing the understanding and treatment of heritable diseases.

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InCoB/ISCB-Asia: keynotes and curation

- December 5, 2011

Covering the the InCoB/ISCB-Asia meeting in Kuala Lumpur – presenting genomics and bioinformatics with a spicy Asian flavour.

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GigaScience at #ICG6: announcing the release of GigaDB and new datasets

- November 19, 2011

Update on the release of a new-look database, more data, and a number of talks and announcements at BGI’s annual ICG6 conference in Shenzhen.

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Genomicists go Shenzhen: GigaScience at the International Conference on Genomics VI

- November 11, 2011

Promoting GigaScience at the International Conference on Genomics VI (ICG6) in Shenzhen with some important announcements to come.

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GigaData news: Macaque DOIs published in Nature Biotechnology

- October 21, 2011

This week marks another success for the fledgling practice of data citation, with two datasets from our GigaScience database published in Nature Biotechnology. The genomes sequenced by our colleagues at the BGI for the Cynomolgus and Chinese rhesus macaques were initially released DOIs at our launch in July, and were amongst the first (at the […]

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ICHG2011: Genetics and Genomics Gets Personal

- October 19, 2011

Coverage of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) jamboree: the2011 International Conference of Human Genetics (ICHG2011) in Montreal.

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GigaScience in the press (and still on the road)…

- October 4, 2011

GigaScience getting nice media conference in Annals of Botany, Bio-IT world and social media, while we continue to travel to conferences

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Beyond the Genome: taking GigaScience into the Clouds

- September 20, 2011

Write-up on Beyond the Genome, our BioMed Central stablemates Genome Biology and Genome Medicine meeting in Washington DC.

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HUPO 2011: lessons for Proteomics from the Genomics Tsunami

- September 13, 2011

Talking about HUPO2011, the Human Proteomics Organisation congress in Geneva looking back on how Proteomics has progressed over the past decade

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