Tag Archives: BGI
Women in Science – Helping Break the Final Barrier in Open Science
Mary Ann Tuli - November 8, 2018
As an Open Science journal, one of the main aims of GigaScience is to break down barriers. Both in the access of research and the underlying data and code supporting it, and the barriers holding back the researchers themselves. With that in mind GigaScience just organised the Fourth Annual Women in Science Conference, a satellite meeting […]
Of Mice and Men (and Monkey) Microbiomes.
Scott Edmunds - August 31, 2018
Monkey Microbiome Business Research just out in GigaScience introduces the macaque monkey to the microbial gene catalogue club, joining other important model organisms including the (also recently published in GigaScience) Rat, Mouse, Pig and Cow. To explain more, in this posting we give some insight into what this data shows, and how this growing library […]
Enter the 2nd GigaScience Prize Track at ICG-13
Scott Edmunds - May 9, 2018
Call for Submissions – Win Prizes and Join us in Shenzhen for ICG-13 Being co-published by BGI we are regular participants at their yearly ICG (International Conference on Genomics) conference in Shenzhen. Since the very first meeting in 2006, ICG has grown to become one of the most influential annual meetings in ‘omics’ research, and […]
And the winner is? Our #ICG12 prize track on GigaTV
Scott Edmunds - November 27, 2017
Last month was the 7th consecutive year we’ve attended our co-publisher BGI’s annual ICG (International Conference on Genomics) gathering in Shenzhen. While we’ve assisted in organising a number of fun thematic tracks over the years including ICG-8’s crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and open science session, and ICG-10’s community genomics session, for ICG12 this year we decided to […]
Enter the GigaScience Prize Track at ICG-12
Scott Edmunds - May 29, 2017
Call for Submissions – Win Prizes and Join us in Shenzhen for ICG-12 Being co-published by BGI and based at their Hong Kong office we are regular participants at their yearly ICG (International Conference on Genomics) conference in Shenzhen. Since the very first meeting in 2006, ICG has grown to become one of the most […]
Open Data Publishing Goes New Zealand: A Cross Posting For Creative Commons Aotearoa
Nicole Nogoy - February 10, 2015
Our New Zealand based Commissioning Editor, Nicole Nogoy, was asked by Creative Commons Aotearoa (New Zealand) to write a guest blog on open licensing from a Kiwi perspective. Being big users and fans of their licenses we were happy to oblige. Now posted on their website, thanks to the wonder of open CC-BY licensing, we […]
Synthetic Genomics: Redesign and synthesis of the first multicellular eukaryotic genome
Scott Edmunds - January 30, 2015
Guest post from researchers at BGI and Edinburgh University on where organismal scale “synthetic genomics” is going.
A GigaGathering at ICG8 in the era of big data and crowdsourcing
Nicole Nogoy - November 5, 2013
As the GigaScience journal moves from strength-to-strength, with that comes the expansion of the editorial and data management teams that are now spanning three continents – and what better way to meet than at the 8th International Conference on Genomics (ICG8) in Shenzhen, China, co-organised by the BGI and GigaScience. Held at the Thunderbirdsesque Vanke […]
Genetics and open access publishing meets Chilli Crab
Scott Edmunds - April 17, 2013
Singapore – a wonderful city of diverse cultures and culinary affair, is not just about the infamous chilli crab or signature cocktail, Singapore Sling, but from the 13-19 April the vibrant country plays host to one of the largest meetings in genetics and genomics. The 2013 Human Genome Meeting/International Congress of Genetics (HGM/ICG) meeting is […]
GigaScience special session at ISCB-Asia on Workflows & Cloud for Reproducible Bioinformatics
Scott Edmunds - December 16, 2012
GigaScience organised a session last week at the ISCB-Asia/SCCG conference in Shenzhen on “Workflows and Cloud for Reproducible Bioinformatics”.