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Data Citation Enters the (year of the) Dragon
Scott Edmunds - January 23, 2012
As we enter the year of the dragon lots of updates and news on how Data Citation is growing as a movement, with meetings and journal uptake.
Data Citation December
Scott Edmunds - December 23, 2011
More on DataCite, Data Citation standards, and the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) in Bristol
HVP Beijing: dealing with variation
Alexandra Basford - December 11, 2011
Write up of the Human Variome Project meeting in Beijing (HVP Beijing), addressing the understanding and treatment of heritable diseases.
InCoB/ISCB-Asia: keynotes and curation
Alexandra Basford - December 5, 2011
Covering the the InCoB/ISCB-Asia meeting in Kuala Lumpur – presenting genomics and bioinformatics with a spicy Asian flavour.
GigaScience at #ICG6: announcing the release of GigaDB and new datasets
Scott Edmunds - 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.
Genomicists go Shenzhen: GigaScience at the International Conference on Genomics VI
Scott Edmunds - November 11, 2011
Promoting GigaScience at the International Conference on Genomics VI (ICG6) in Shenzhen with some important announcements to come.
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.