Tag Archives: genomics

Urban fruits, 3D printed frog legs and gapless genomes: 2024 was wild

- December 14, 2024

It’s December again, and our teams of editors and curators are busy with the many submissions we receive at this time of year. Scientists are eager to clear their desks before a well-earned break and it’s time for the annual GigaBlog ritual: Looking back at the year that was at GigaScience Press. Citizen Science  2024 […]

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Continuing Journeys in Space: Human Cell Atlas Asia and Our Spatial Omics Series

- November 30, 2024

Human Cell Atlas Asia

Human Cell Atlas Asia 2024: A Spatial Omics Odyssey The GigaScience Press Cross Journal (GigaScience and GigaByte) series on “Spatial Omics: Methods and Application” continues to receive and publish submissions. Promoting and providing a home for cutting edge research in new field taking large-scale data-rich biological and biomedical research into new dimensions. This month new […]

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Launch of the T2T Series: Closing the Gaps from Telomere-to-Telomere

- August 26, 2024

T2T Series

GigaScience’s T2T Series has now launched, with our first papers showcasing new Telomere-to-Telomere methods and genomic data sets. While the first draft of the Human Genome was declared complete in April 2003, it took a further two decades for the publication of the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome in March 2022. The […]

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DNA Day Launch for Hong Kong’s Moonshot for Biology

- April 25, 2024

Hong Kong Biodiversity Genome Project

The first emblematic species sequenced by the Hong Kong Biodiversity Genomics Consortium are published to coincide with International DNA Day. Joining a global “moonshot for biology” that aims to sequence, catalogue, and characterize the genomes of all of Earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity. A significant portion of modern knowledge in biology has emerged through sequencing the genetic […]

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Taking Spatial Omics into the Next Dimension

- February 20, 2024

Spatial Omics series

A multitude of papers on novel methods for Spatial Omics are published in a cross-journal series launching today in GigaScience and GigaByte Journals. Spatial Omics is a new field that is taking large-scale data-rich biological and biomedical research into new dimensions. Which is having a significant impact on the fundamental fields of biology and biomedicine. […]

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Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) 31st annual conference

- February 2, 2024

PAG (Plant and Animal Genomes conference) returned to the Town and Country resort San Diego for its 31st installment this January (Jan 12-17, 2024), bigger and better than ever before! The GigaScience Press team are regular attendees of the meeting (see last years write-up), and this year members of our Editorial and Curation teams joined […]

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Evolutionary Biology goes Asia: the 3rd AsiaEvo Conference

- January 10, 2024

AsiaEvo conference signpost

In the beginning GigaScience was at the first AsiaEvo conference, which took place in Shenzhen, China in 2019. Back then, the chair of the first AsiaEvo Conference, Guojie Zhang (longtime friend and board member of GigaScience) said of the history of the AsiaEvo meeting series: “In 2016, at the European Evo-Devo conference in Uppsala, some […]

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Some sea cucumbers like it hot

- January 9, 2024

We start the new year with news from the deep, published in GigaScience: The genome of a sea cucumber, collected at a depth of 2400 m during a submarine trip to a hydrothermal vent, helps scientists to understand how marine animals can survive in extreme conditions. Hydrothermal vents are an unlikely environment for animals to […]

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GSC23: Talking standards in Bangkok

- August 25, 2023

GSC23

The Genomic Standards Consortium held its 23rd meeting (GSC23) in Bangkok, Thailand this August and we have a write-up of what happened.

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Genome data shed light on the domestication of naked oat

- August 2, 2023

Avena sativa (oat)

Genome analysis of 100 oat plants from around the world reveal that naked and hulled oat varieties diverged more than 50.000 years ago.

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