Tag Archives: open science

Getting deep into the weeds of Cannabis genomics: Join our first Cassyni Seminar

- October 20, 2024

Cannabis Genomics seminar

Reaching new highs in Cannabis sativa Omics There is a growing interest in Cannabis (Cannabis sativa) research, and recent changes in regulations have spurred numerous genomic studies of this once-prohibited plant. Industrial hemp and medical marijuana are now global multibillion-dollar industries, but due to its widespread prohibition in the 20th and early 21st century it […]

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Filling the Biodiversity Dark Spots: Announcing the Asia Nature Challenge

- October 3, 2024

GigaScience Press is helping CitizenScience.Asia mobilise Citizen Scientists Across Asia for a groundbreaking biodiversity initiative from October 18 to 27 2024. Regular readers will have seen our efforts to promote and amplify citizen science projects, citizen science being a key driver of “Open Engagement of Societal Actors”, which was highlighted by UNESCO as one of […]

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Transparency FTW! LLMs, OpenBoxScience and GetFreeCopy

- May 30, 2024

GetFreeCopy from OpenBoxScience

As an Open Science publisher we’ve pushed for transparency and access in the research that we disseminate, and in GigaByte journal we’ve just published a new open-source software tool “GetFreeCopy” that is demonstrative and addresses many features of this. To tell us more we have a Q&A with lead author Kuan-lin Huang, an Assistant Professor […]

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Inspiring Inclusion: The 9th Annual Women in Science Conference

- March 8, 2024

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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, […]

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Peer Review Week 2023: GigaByte joins the ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ Revolution using Sciety

- September 27, 2023

Peer Review Week 2023 announcement

Thanks to a collaboration with Sciety and eLife, this Peer Review Week 2023 we can announce new ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ models of peer-review are being showcased by GigaByte.

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Archiving blogs: Rogue Scholar and lessons from Biome

- September 12, 2023

Rogue Scholar

GigaBlog is now archived in Rogue Scholar, a new service that provides what it calls “science blogging on steroids” through including full-text search, long-term archiving, DOIs and metadata for science blogs such as ours.

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Announcing the GigaScience T2T Series: Closing the Gaps from Telomere-to-Telomere

- April 3, 2023

T2T series

An announcement on the GigaScience T2T (Telomere to Telomere) Series: Closing the Gaps from Telomere-to-Telomere

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Celebrating and innovating: This was 2022 at GigaScience Press

- December 20, 2022

tortoise with Santa hat

It was a year to remember, for more than one reason: 2022 marked the 10th anniversary of GigaScience‘s launch. The journal’s younger sibling GigaByte got an award and continued to innovate with living documents and its first trilingual article. And we published lots of memorable research, featuring, for example, a giant tortoise and 26 deadly […]

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The first English-Spanish-Ukrainian Publication. How to publish multilingual articles with GigaByte

- November 28, 2022

Multilingual articles

GigaByte this week marks the first time multilingual articles have been simultaneously published in English, Spanish and Ukrainian. Showcasing a novel and award winning feature from our publishing platform.

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GigaByte Wins 2022 ALPSP Innovation Award

- September 21, 2022

ALPSP Innovation Award

GigaByte Journal wins the ALPSP Innovation Award for their interactive articles and tools aimed at fulfilling the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

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