Tag Archives: GigaScience
Inspiring Inclusion: The 9th Annual Women in Science Conference
Nicole Nogoy - March 8, 2024
The 9th Women in Science Conference took place in Shenzhen. Below are some highlights from the conference co-organized by our Publishing Director, Laurie Goodman, and Co-Chaired by Doris Yang, from BGI-College. Today, March 8, 2024 marks International Women’s Day – where women’s achievement and inclusivity is celebrated. Inspired by the collective awareness of all, […]
2023 in review: Gigabyte journal coming of age, and more
Hans Zauner - December 5, 2023
It’s December, the festive season and the end of year are approaching fast – and it’s time for our traditional look back on the past 12 months at GigaScience Press. Once more, we are pleased with the view in the rear mirror. In its 11th year, GigaScience again published exceptional “big data” science (read on […]
The (first) GigaScience Press End-of-Year Review
Hans Zauner - December 20, 2021
This end-of-the-year festive summary is different from previous ones: For the first time, we can look back at a full publication year of our new baby, GigaByte journal. The older sibling GigaScience will also get the attention it deserves, before celebrating its 10th birthday in 2022. Let’s first have a look at how the new […]
Big data, big conferences, big plans: 2019 in review
Hans Zauner - December 21, 2019
This is the last blog post of 2019 and it is time again to look back at some of the amazing research published in GigaScience over the past year. Besides handling manuscripts, reviews and data, the editors and curators also attended conferences near and far, they contributed to policy discussions and prepared the launch of […]
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
An end-of-year Christmassy 2015 wrap-up from Nicole Nogoy on everything that has happened to GigaScience in the last year
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 Kenall tells us more about what this is and how it works.
Calling all papers for the Automated Function Prediction series
Nicole Nogoy - November 18, 2013
Announcing a new thematic series of research highlighting automated function prediction using sequence-based methods, function from genomic information, molecular interactions, structure, use of combined methods, and phylogeny-based methods.
A GigaGathering at ICG8 in the era of big data and crowdsourcing
Nicole Nogoy - November 5, 2013
A GigaGathering at ICG8 in the era of big data and crowdsourcing, covering the special track we organised on crowdsourcing and open science.