Tag Archives: disease vector
Round three for GigaByte’s vectors of human disease series
Scott Edmunds - December 23, 2024
TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases hosted at the World Health Organization (WHO), GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a third call for authors to submit Data Release papers on vectors of human disease for inclusion in a thematic series published in GigaByte Journal. Round three builds on the first […]
GigaByte Author Wins A Ben Barres Spotlight Award for Publicly Reviewed Preprints
Scott Edmunds - July 8, 2024
GigaScience Press would like to congratulate Victoire Nsabatien for winning a 2024 Ben Barres Spotlight Award for his two preprints publicly reviewed and published by GigaByte. Prizes are a good way of positively reinforcing and incentivizing good practice in opening up science, and eLife should be commended creating the Ben Barres Spotlight Award for groups […]
Converting the Field Records of Early-20th Century Public Health Pioneer to Data
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
Second call (and webinar) for GigaByte’s vectors of human disease series
Scott Edmunds - November 6, 2022
TDR, GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a second call (and webinar) for the GigaByte series publishing new datasets for research on vectors of human diseases.
GigaByte helping the fight against Vector-Borne diseases with data
Scott Edmunds - June 14, 2022
New GigaByte series of vector-borne diseases data papers just out, including mosquitoes, sandflies, ticks, and kissing bugs, supported by GBIF and the WHO
Publishing Citizen Science data to fight against mosquito borne diseases
Scott Edmunds - May 31, 2022
Citizen Scientists share and publish Mosquito Alert data as part of our GigaByte (& GBIF & TDR supported) series on vector-borne diseases.