Tag Archives: data citation

Software Citation Comes of Age

- June 22, 2021

Following the publication of a new software citation guide we explain more the practicalities and importance of citing research software.

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GigaScience Gets a Service. What’s new in GigaDB?

- November 26, 2015

After a solid year of behind-the-scenes efforts, the latest version of our GigaDB database rolled out last month. While superficially it may not look that different, a lot has changed under the hood. To explain more our Lead Curator Chris Hunter talks through some of the main feature changes.

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The Latest Weapon in Publishing Data: the Polar Bear

- May 14, 2014

The Latest Weapon in Publishing Data is the Polar Bear genome, demonstrating that data citation is possible by the big publishers such as Cell Press

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Guest posting: Many journals have determined that they can assist in data sharing

- April 23, 2014

Today we have a guest posting from F1000’s Iain Hrynaszkiewicz covering the topic of journals role in medical data sharing

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Having a finger on the pulse of data citation

- February 28, 2014

Endorsing data citation at the Data Citation Principles workshop at the IDCC meeting in San Francisco and new data and functionality in GigaDB

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The difficulties sharing neuroscience data: can data publishing help?

- May 9, 2013

The difficulties sharing neuroscience data, and demonstrating data publishing can help address the credit issue to fill the data gaps

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Opening peer-review: our new paper on SOAPdenovo2 shows how it works

- December 27, 2012

Our new paper on the SOAPdenovo2 genome assembly tool shows how our open peer review system works, adding transparency to scientific publishing

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Promoting Data Citation in Nature (and Pushing Past Panda Problems)

- December 21, 2012

A brief history of data citation, and an overview of our battles getting DOIs cited in the references of a number of journals.

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First methylated nematode genome and other new datasets in GigaDB

- October 17, 2012

Methylated nematode

The worm that turned (epigenetics) GigaDB, GigaScience’s associated database, has had a number of new datasets just added, many for data types previously not hosted. Today marks the publication of new research in our sister BMC journal Genome Biology shaking up the epigenetics field by shattering the assumption that DNA methylation is absent in nematodes. […]

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Lessons From the “Data Publication Spring”: DataCite Summer 2012

- June 29, 2012

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Lessons From the “Data Publication Spring”:, a write up of the DataCite Summer 2012 meeting in Copenhagen.

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