special series Archives

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 […]

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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.

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GigaByte call for data papers describing datasets on vectors of human diseases

Scott Edmunds - November 17, 2021

GigaScience Press partnering with GBIF are supported by TDR (hosted at the wHO), to release a special issue for publication of new datasets presenting biodiversity data for research on vectors of human diseases.

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A Passion for Morphing Passiflora Leaves: Author Q&A with Daniel Chitwood

Nicole Nogoy - May 4, 2017

Author Q&A with Daniel Chitwood and call for papers for our plant phenomics series, talking about his passion for Morphing Passiflora Leaves

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Remember Remember, It’s Neuro-November!

Nicole Nogoy - November 1, 2016

Halloween may be over, but this November GigaScience will be continuing to fight the zombie (paper) apocalypse and binge on sweet sweet brains (research outputs).

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The Complexities of Modern Plant Phenomics: A Guest Blog by our Plant Phenomics Series Guest Editors

Nicole Nogoy - June 7, 2016

Four enthusiastic Guest Editors (Rubén Rellán Álvarez, Guillaume Lobet, Malia Gehan and Srikant Srinivasan) of our Plant Phenomics: Data Integration series, have got together and share their insights on the current status of Plant Phenomics research.

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Crossing the Genome Finishing Line – News from our Optical Mapping Series

Scott Edmunds - January 28, 2016

Update on the latest papers in our new Optical Mapping series, and discussion on the increasing move towards “finishing” genomes.

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Guest Blog: Challenges and opportunities with sharing neuroimaging data

Nicole Nogoy - October 19, 2014

Here we present a guest blog by our Editorial Board Member Russell Poldrack, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, who highlights the challenges and opportunities surrounding imaging data to enable the neuroscience community to “stand on the shoulders of giants”, and an announcement on our new fMRI series. The sharing of neuroimaging data is an […]

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