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GigaByte a finalist for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2022

- July 4, 2022

ALPSP Awards

We are pleased to announce GigaByte journal has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2022 ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) Awards for Innovation in Publishing.

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GigaScience at SPNHC 2022

- June 27, 2022

Write up of the meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC 2022) by Chris Armit.

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GigaByte helping the fight against Vector-Borne diseases with data

- June 14, 2022

disease vectors data

New GigaByte series of vector-borne diseases data papers just out, including mosquitoes, sandflies, ticks, and kissing bugs, supported by GBIF and the WHO

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Publishing Citizen Science data to fight against mosquito borne diseases

- May 31, 2022

Citizen Scientists share and publish Mosquito Alert data as part of our GigaByte (& GBIF & TDR supported) series on vector-borne diseases.

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Waking Up Publishing with Interactive Coffee Data

- April 21, 2022

interactive coffee dataset

Author Q&A with Julien Wist talking about his interactive coffee dataset just published in GigaByte that features a NMRium browser.

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GigaScience at VIZBI 2022

- April 7, 2022

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Write-up of the The 12th international meeting on Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI) conference

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3D imaging of the proteus, a mysterious cave-dwelling salamander

- April 6, 2022

Newly published high-resolution images of the head of the blind salamander Proteus anguinus reveal adaptations for life in the dark.

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Genomic and genetic tools for the helmeted honeyeater, Victoria’s endangered state bird

- March 29, 2022

A team led by scientists from Monash University have completed a major milestone towards achieving the rescue of the critically endangered helmeted honeyeater. They have deciphered the bird’s genome and created a high-density genetic linkage map, thereby introducing new tools that will be helpful in conservation efforts. You can read the GigaScience Data Note, presenting […]

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Opening access and exploring sepsis in an Intensive Care database. Q&A with Tom Edinburgh

- March 15, 2022

Author Q&A with Tom Edinburgh on his new GigaByte paper presenting Sepsis-3 criteria in AmsterdamUMCdb, an Intensive Care database.

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Vectors of data awards: acknowledging the entire data sharing food web

- February 4, 2022

We are pleased to see the 2022 Junior Research Parasite Award go to Jack Pilgrim for his work published last year in GigaScience, so here we highlight the ecosystem of awards acknowledging different parts of the research cycle.

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