Tag Archives: infectious disease
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.
GigaByte and GBIF Webinar: Data papers describing datasets on vectors of human diseases
Scott Edmunds - January 18, 2022
Tune in to the GigaByte and GBIF webinar that uncovers the details of the TDR sponsored call for data papers describing datasets on vectors of human diseases.
New beginnings during a pandemic – the COVID year in review
Hans Zauner - December 17, 2020
Looking back at this unusual year, we are happy to report that GigaScience not only kept going under difficult circumstances, publishing outstanding examples of Big Data science and introducing innovations in the review process. We also opened a new chapter with the launch of a sister journal, GigaByte .
iPhone Genomics: beaming us up to the “tricorder” era
Scott Edmunds - December 8, 2020
The 1st comprehensive mobile genome analysis application, iGenomics, is now available for use on an iphone. By pairing an smartphone with a handheld DNA sequencer, users will be able to create a mobile genetics laboratory, reminiscent of the Star Trek’s tricorder.
COVID-19 Data-Sharing Hero Wins GigaScience Prize
Scott Edmunds - November 11, 2020
Prof Zhang Yongzhen is winner the 2020 ICG-15 GigaScience Prize for Outstanding Data Sharing during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Last month was the 10th year we’ve attended our co-publisher BGI’s annual ICG (International Conference on Genomics) gathering, and the 3rd time we have presented a prize at the meeting.
A New Monitoring Tool Empowering Infectious Disease Detectives
Scott Edmunds - October 22, 2020
Out this week in GigaScience is a new monitoring tool empowering infectious disease detectives. Scientists in Cambodia, who are supported by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, used the new IDseq tool to help confirm and sequence the whole genome of the country’s first case of COVID-19. Read more here.
Coronavirus research needs to be a marathon, not a sprint
Hans Zauner - August 18, 2020
Q&A with Michael Fire talking about scientometric trends for coronaviruses and other infectious diseases, looking at why this research can “go viral”