crowdfunding Archives

Guest Posting: Help Crowdfund the Transbiome

Scott Edmunds - March 2, 2021

A guest posting with the Transbiome team on their community driven research program using crowdfunding and co-creation to discover the diversity of the neo-vaginal microbiome.

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We Wish You a GigaChristmas: A 2015 Wrap-Up

Nicole Nogoy - December 14, 2015

An end-of-year Christmassy 2015 wrap-up from Nicole Nogoy on everything that has happened to GigaScience in the last year

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Community Genomes on GigaTV

Scott Edmunds - December 10, 2015

GigaScience helped organise the Community Genomes track covering crowdfunding and citizen use of genomics data at the 10th International Conference on Genomics in Shenzhen. Read more and watch the talks in this write up.

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Community Microbiomes: Chatting Cat Scat with Kittybiome’s Holly Ganz

Scott Edmunds - May 26, 2015

All Cats (Microbiomes) are Grey? Regular readers will have seen our interest in “community genome” projects, supported by crowdfunding and alternative means (fashion shows in case of the “peoples parrot”), and we’ve been pleased to see the Azolla fern and Cactus genome projects that we published guest GigaBlog postings from both achieve their funding targets. […]

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Guest Posting: Help Crowdfund the “Community Cactus”

Scott Edmunds - March 13, 2015

Peng Jiang and Hui Guo from the University of Georgia provide a guest post covering their crowdfunding efforts to sequence the first cactus genome.

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Community Genomes: From the Peoples Parrot, to “Crowdfernding”.

Scott Edmunds - September 30, 2014

An overview of Community Genomes: providing examples of crowdfunded and sourced genomics projects from the Peoples Parrot to “Crowdfernding”.

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Guest posting: Let’s crowdfund a fern genome that will blow your mind

Nicole Nogoy - June 16, 2014

Following our efforts encouraging open-science projects, such as the community funded “Peoples Parrot” and OpenAshDieback, today we have a guest posting from Fay-Wei Li and Kathleen Pryer from the Department of Biology at Duke University covering a crowdfunding effort to sequence the Azolla genome. They have already raised over $4,000 and have 25 days remaining until […]

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