Tag Archives: plant genomics
DNA Day 2025: Mission Accomplished for Bauhinia Genome
Scott Edmunds - April 25, 2025
Regular readers may have followed our community genome project Bauhinia Genome, and today marks the end of this journey with the publication in GigaScience of completely gapless telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assembly which helps advance our understanding of the genomic structure underlying the captivating traits of Hong Kong’s floral emblem. The 25th April is International DNA […]
Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) 32nd annual conference
Chris Hunter - January 22, 2025
The 32nd Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) Conference 2025 was a whirlwind of fascinating talks and innovative research! As in previous years (see previous blog posts here & here), the event spanned 5 complete days, this time the organisers reporting 2349 registered attendees from 64 countries. The top 5 represented countries were (highest number of […]
Getting deep into the weeds of Cannabis genomics: Join our first Cassyni Seminar
Scott Edmunds - October 20, 2024
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 […]
Launch of the T2T Series: Closing the Gaps from Telomere-to-Telomere
Scott Edmunds - August 26, 2024
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 […]
Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) 31st annual conference
Chris Hunter - 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 […]
Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) Comes Storming Back!
Chris Hunter - February 6, 2023
After 2 cancellations due to the pandemic, the Plant and Animal Genomes conference returned to its in-person format in January with its 30th edition. A number of the talks focused on the effects of climate change either on biodiversity or crop development. It seems only fitting then, that the weather provided a suitable demonstration with […]
Update on Updates. GigaByte’s new article type to speed up science
Scott Edmunds - June 15, 2021
We have an update on the Update article, GigaByte’s new article type to speed up the sharing and communication of science through allowing publication of data and software versions that are immediately useful to the community.
Under Construction: Plant and Animal Genomes Get a Refurb
Scott Edmunds - March 1, 2020
As publishers of a lot of plant and animal genomes, the biggest conference for this research community is the appropriately named Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG). We’ve attended a number of these giant meetings in their San Diego base, and in recent years they have been branching out to host satellites in Asia (PAG […]
Harvesting the final fruits of the plant tree of life
Scott Edmunds - October 24, 2019
Lessons learned in the evolution of large-scale data sharing New studies out today elucidate the framework for 1 billion years of green plant evolution. The work are the results of nearly a decades work from an international consortium of nearly 200 plant researchers generating gene sequences from more than 1100 plant species. Here and in […]
PAG Asia 2019: Plant and Animal Genomes (with Chinese Characteristics)
Chris Armit - July 3, 2019
Regular readers will know GigaScience has published a lot of plant and animal genomes, and the biggest conference for this research community is the appropriately named Plant & Animal Genome Conference (PAG). We’ve attended a number of these giant meetings at their San Diego base, and in recent years they have been branching out to […]