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. While this July we celebrated the 11 ^th anniversary of the launch of our first articles at ISMB in Lyon, it was actually the 12 ^th anniversary of the launch of GigaBlog, the blog of GigaScience

The Genomic Standards Consortium held its 23rd meeting (GSC23) in Bangkok, Thailand this August and we have a write-up of what happened.

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GigaScience Press team attended the yearly ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology) meeting and learned about Large Language Models.

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Genome analysis of 100 oat plants from around the world reveal that naked and hulled oat varieties diverged more than 50.000 years ago.

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Field notes of early-20th century entomologist Johanna Bonne-Wepster have been turned into crucial new public health data through digitization, filling data gaps and continuing her legacy in forming Dutch tropical medicine research. Natural history collections contain huge amounts of information on diversity, distribution and ecology of a variety of species; however, much of this valuable information is effectively lost

This week GigaScience published a cost-effective, open source  hardware/software solution for selective sequencing, using the Nanopore Minion device and a tiny $300 device that is “two times faster than a 30,000 $ 36-core server, at a fraction of power consumption”.

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First full-length genome sequences for three species of Morpho butterflies show inversions on the Z chromosome.

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

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In one of our conference write-ups, GigaDB provides perspectives and summary of the RDA20 plenary- A decade of data. 5 days of discussions and working groups all about research data.

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A new GigaScience article presents rich multi-dimensional data on a female dingo, Cooinda, including a whole genome sequence.

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We have an author Q&A and video abstract with Tazro Ohta where he gives some insight into archiving workflows and his new Yevis platform.

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