Tag Archives: GigaScience
Introducing Gigwa: Genotype Investigator for Genome-Wide Analyses
Guilhem Sempere - June 8, 2016
GigaScience recently published an article all about a Genotype Investigator for Genome-Wide Analyses, alternatively known as Gigwa. But what is this and how can it help? Guilhem Sempere explains more.
We Wish You a GigaChristmas: A 2015 Wrap-Up
Nicole Nogoy - December 14, 2015
Last Christmas we gave you our heart; okay forget George Michael – we gave you beautiful imaging data sets, Virtual Machines, BYO data parties, GigaGitHub, more open peer review plus much more. However, in 2015 GigaScience has delivered anything but less, with more technical developments and exemplar papers published – GigaScience continues to push the […]
The Importance of Annotation: A Q&A with Hypothes.is Director of Biosciences, Maryann Martone
Nicole Nogoy - December 1, 2015
Maryann Martone is Director of Biosciences for Hypothes.is and current President of FORCE11, an organization advancing scholarly communication. She tells us about a new open annotation tool, Hypothes.is, and why the ability to annotate scholarly objects is so important.
Putting credit back into the hands of researchers
Amye Kenall - September 28, 2015
Today, GigaScience launched a project providing an alternative way to give authors credit for their work, contributing more to collaboration, transparency and better data. Amye tells us more about what this is and how it works.
All systems go at ICSB 2014 and the Great GigaScience and Galaxy (G3) workshop
Nicole Nogoy - September 24, 2014
The 2014 International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB) was hosted in Australia’s most livable city and event, sport, culture and food capital – that is Melbourne, with GigaScience being proud to be one of the media partners. Stem cell biology was a major theme on the first day, and kicked off to a strong start […]
Calling all papers for the Automated Function Prediction series
Nicole Nogoy - November 18, 2013
Editors: Mark Wass (University of Kent, UK), Iddo Friedberg (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA), Predrag Radivojac (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA) Last July, GigaScience and the organisers of the Automated Function Prediction special interest group at ISMB announced an upcoming series on Automated Function Prediction. This is a thematic series of research from the meeting […]
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 […]
Q&A with Xin Zhou, author of our insect “squishome” paper.
Scott Edmunds - April 2, 2013
Following from our previous blog posting, here we profile and interview Dr Xin Zhou, lead author of our recent “squishome” insect goo metabarcoding paper. This NGS (next generation sequencing)-based work has already generated a lot of interest (see this write-up in Wired and this blog posting for nice examples), and here Dr Zhou gives more […]
Opening peer-review: our new paper on SOAPdenovo2 shows how it works
Scott Edmunds - December 27, 2012
With everyone in a reflective mood as the year comes to a close, one of the big scientific trends of 2012 has obviously been the high profile that open-access and more open methods of carrying out science has received. With the Elsevier boycott, UK Finch report, and launch of a number of innovative new schemes […]
Promoting Data Citation in Nature (and Pushing Past Panda Problems)
Scott Edmunds - December 21, 2012
Regular reader of this blog will be aware of our efforts to promote data citation using digital object identifiers (DOIs), and this week, alongside Rebecca Lawrence from F1000 Research and Kevin Ashley from the Digital Curation Centre, our Editor in Chief Laurie Goodman has a correspondence in Nature strongly making this case. The motivation to […]