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.
Published today in GigaScience is a new algorithm connecting social and biological networks to identify key proteins in Human Health. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a machine-learning algorithm that could enhance our understanding of human biology and disease.
Regular readers will have heard the news that TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a third call for authors to submit Data Release papers on vectors of human disease for inclusion in a thematic series published in GigaByte Journal.
GigaScience Press is pleased to announce an upcoming Cassyni webinar on algorithm based detection of diseases using AI-based approaches taken from social media to protein networks.