Hans Zauner - December 5, 2023
It’s December, the festive season and the end of year are approaching fast – and it’s time for our traditional look back on the past 12 months at GigaScience Press. Once more, we are pleased with the view in the rear mirror. In its 11th year, GigaScience again published exceptional “big data” science (read on […]
Chris Armit - November 8, 2023
Chris Armit attended the Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Conference 2023 in Mexico and reports on the Biobanking heavy agenda.
Scott Edmunds - September 27, 2023
Thanks to a collaboration with Sciety and eLife, this Peer Review Week 2023 we can announce new ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ models of peer-review are being showcased by GigaByte.
Scott Edmunds - September 19, 2023
In the process of going back through our more than 300 posts over 12-years of blogging we thought we would highlight our favourites in a Top of the Pops style countdown.
Scott Edmunds - September 12, 2023
GigaBlog is now archived in Rogue Scholar, a new service that provides what it calls “science blogging on steroids” through including full-text search, long-term archiving, DOIs and metadata for science blogs such as ours.
Chris Hunter - August 25, 2023
The Genomic Standards Consortium held its 23rd meeting (GSC23) in Bangkok, Thailand this August and we have a write-up of what happened.
Scott Edmunds - August 3, 2023
GigaScience Press team attended the yearly ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology) meeting and learned about Large Language Models.
Hans Zauner - August 2, 2023
Genome analysis of 100 oat plants from around the world reveal that naked and hulled oat varieties diverged more than 50.000 years ago.
Scott Edmunds - July 18, 2023
Field notes of the early-20th century entomologist Johanna Bonne-Wepster have been digitized as part of the GigaByte vectors of human disease series
Hans Zauner - July 4, 2023
This week GigaScience published a cost-effective, open source hardware/software solution for selective sequencing, using the Nanopore Minion device and a tiny $300 device that is “two times faster than a 30,000 $ 36-core server, at a fraction of power consumption”.