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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 […]
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.