As we enter Peer Review Week 2025, we would like to propose the use of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) principles for scientific peer review , using these to make the process more scalable, efficient and also better equipped for the increasing use of AI in publishing. Today marks the start of Peer Review Week 2025 (PRW 2025), an annual event celebrating the vital role peer review plays in ensuring the

GigaScience Press is again helping CitizenScience.Asia mobilise Citizen Scientists Across Asia for a groundbreaking biodiversity initiative from October 3 to 12 2025.

Two almost complete and gapless genomes of the sex-changing central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) are published today in GigaScience to help tackle the mystery of reptile sex determination. Read more here.

This year ISMB2025 and BOSC was in Liverpool, and we embraced the location with our biggest birthday ever (alongside some Beatles themed adventures). Read more in the conference write-up.

The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) recently convened for the GSC25 meeting in Cambridge, UK. Bringing together leading researchers, data scientists, and genomics professionals from around the world. Held from July 28-August 1, GSC25 marked a significant milestone – celebrating two decades of advancing genomic data standards while charting the course for the next 20 years.

GigaScience Press’ has been awarded one of the first CrossRef MetaData Awards, highlighting the Press as a leader in providing essential information to facilitate discovery, identification, and details of online research articles. This week GigaScience Press has been announced as a winner at the inaugural Crossref Metadata Awards, recognising efforts in scholarly publishing metadata completeness and enrichment in their journal,

Following our previous DNA Day 2025 post covering where we are in the T2T (telomere-to-telomer) genomes era, we have a second expert Q&A covering the topic, this time from Kateryna Makova on the challenges (and opportunities) of

Today is International DNA Day, commemorating the day in 1953 when Crick, Watson, Wilkins and Franklin published their papers on the structure of DNA. Fifty years later, with the declaration that the human genome project was close to completion the US Senate and the House of Representatives declared that 25 ^th April 2003 would be the first DNA Day, and ever since many (including ourselves through many blogs) have commemorated the date.

As another DNA Day treat GigaByte today publishes new benchmark data and analysis of the new CycloneSEQ platform, a novel sequencing technology using nanopores that demonstrates here the ability to sequence complete bacterial genomes. Getting our hands on a CycloneSeq sequencer Following on from the recent official launch of BGI’s new CycloneSEQ single-molecule sequencer the new Data Release published today in GigaByte presents

Re gular readers may have followed our community genome project Bauhinia Genome, and today marks the end of this journey with the publication in GigaScience of

The Biocuration 2025 meeting held in Kansas City USA at the Stowers Institute (April 5-9) was a well organized blend of in-person and virtual participants. As regular attendees and International Society of Biocuration (ISB) members (see previous reports) GigaScience Press was represented by two members of the GigaDB team, Chris Hunter and Bastien Molcrette.