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GigaData news: Macaque DOIs published in Nature Biotechnology
Scott Edmunds - 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 […]
ICHG2011: Genetics and Genomics Gets Personal
Scott Edmunds - October 19, 2011
Coverage of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) jamboree: the2011 International Conference of Human Genetics (ICHG2011) in Montreal.
GigaScience in the press (and still on the road)…
Scott Edmunds - 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
Beyond the Genome: taking GigaScience into the Clouds
Scott Edmunds - September 20, 2011
Write-up on Beyond the Genome, our BioMed Central stablemates Genome Biology and Genome Medicine meeting in Washington DC.
HUPO 2011: lessons for Proteomics from the Genomics Tsunami
Scott Edmunds - September 13, 2011
Talking about HUPO2011, the Human Proteomics Organisation congress in Geneva looking back on how Proteomics has progressed over the past decade
Exercises in blogging at #solo11. Show me the data!
Scott Edmunds - September 3, 2011
Write up on Science Online London (#SOLO11) the science communication conference where we participated in a panel and some blogging exercises
The complexity of life
Alexandra Basford - September 2, 2011
More thoughts on the 2011 International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2011) meeting in Heidelberg/Mannheim.
Systems, synthetics and semantics
Alexandra Basford - August 29, 2011
Write up of the 2011 International Conference on Systems Biology (#ICSB) meeting in either Heidelberg/Mannheim.
Datacite summer meeting
Scott Edmunds - August 27, 2011
This week we attended Data and the Scholarly Record: The Changing Landscape, the Datacite 2011 summer meeting in Berkeley
Further adventures on the road…
Scott Edmunds - August 23, 2011
An update on GigaScience’s further adventures on the road, updating you on our conference schedule and talks this summer.