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Research, Release, Fork, Update, Repeat. Winner of the 2022 ALPSP Innovation in Publishing Award. https://gigabytejournal.com/
For Peer Review Week 2025 we have a video explainer of our #OpenScience Peer Review process youtu.be/Ov_X5eYJhe4?... #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025
Open Science Peer Review with GigaByte
YouTube video by GigaScience Press
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September 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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A groundbreaking dataset charts the distribution of kissing bug species across three continents, providing public health officials with the insights needed to prevent new Chagas disease outbreaks. www.news-medical.net/news/2025091... @gigabytejournal.bsky.social
Scientists map kissing bugs beyond the Americas to assess Chagas threat
Researchers compiled the first comprehensive dataset of 16 non-American triatomine bug species, mapping 396 verified records across Africa, Asia, and Oceania. This resource supports global Chagas dise...
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September 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A new paper in our @gbif.org / TDR supported Vectors of Human Disease series presenting biting and non-biting fly species from Southeast Asia

Distribution of flies of medical importance in Thailand: a dataset doi.org/10.46471/gig...
Distribution of flies of medical importance in Thailand: a dataset
Distribution of flies of medical importance in Thailand: a dataset
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September 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New in our Vectors of Human Disease series shares extremely important data ltracking kissing bug spread into Africa, Asia, and Oceania

Triatomines outside the Americas: a comprehensive dataset for the global surveillance of Chagas disease vectors doi.org/10.46471/gig...
Triatomines outside the Americas: a comprehensive dataset for the global surveillance of Chagas disease vectors
Triatomines outside the Americas: a comprehensive dataset for the global surveillance of Chagas disease vectors
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September 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We for one welcome our new AI overlords. As all our content is presented in the most structured and metadata rich manner. With a text-mining portal for bulk use. And all papers linked to the supporting data and code( via DOIs where possible)

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Rise of the Machine Readers: What They Really Want to Read - The Scholarly Kitchen
As AI becomes a major consumer of research, scholarly publishing must evolve: from PDFs for people to structured, high-quality data for machines.
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August 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Appropriate it is #WorldMosquitoDay when the latest phase of our Vectors of Human Disease papers are starting to come out. See the series page and watch this space for some more really important mosquito observation datasets coming out soon doi.org/10.46471/GIG...
August 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
How to Publish Interactive Figures with GigaByte. Here we have an explainer video on how publishing with us can bring your papers to life youtu.be/sukbt_TR6cM?...
How to Publish Interactive Figures with GigaByte
YouTube video by GigaScience Press
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August 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
1st paper from Phase III of our Vectors of Human Disease series is out, and its sharing #citizenscience data schistosome hosts data

Snail intermediate host occurrence recorded by citizen scientists in rural Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo doi.org/10.46471/gig...
Snail intermediate host occurrence recorded by citizen scientists in rural Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Snail intermediate host occurrence recorded by citizen scientists in rural Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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August 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
A new sequenced and annotated bird genome in GigaByte.

Whole genome sequencing and assembly of the house sparrow, Passer domesticus doi.org/10.46471/gig...
Whole genome sequencing and assembly of the house sparrow, Passer domesticus
Whole genome sequencing and assembly of the house sparrow, Passer domesticus
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August 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
#Usegalaxy workflows for quantum chemistry, allowing non-HPC users to make electron ionization mass spectra predictions more easily.

Galaxy QCxMS for straightforward semi-empirical quantum mechanical EI-MS prediction doi.org/10.46471/gig...
Galaxy QCxMS for straightforward semi-empirical quantum mechanical EI-MS prediction
Galaxy QCxMS for straightforward semi-empirical quantum mechanical EI-MS prediction
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August 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Having >2200 attendees at #ISMBECCB2025 has made the poster sessions pretty full on. Great there are long coffee sessions but can barely get through all of the aisles #ISMB2025
July 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In the Analytic tools and pipelines track of #BOSC2025, interesting to see @nextflow.io in 2024 overtook #usegalaxy to become the most widely used workflow manager in bioinformatics #ISMB2025 #ISMBECCB2025
July 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Liverpool seems a great location for #ISMBECCB2025 #ISMB2025, with a fab first morning keynote from Amos Bairoch
July 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Read more in this posting on how we are reviewing preprints and linking reviews and editor’s assessment to each associated preprint gigasciencejournal.com/blog/peer-re... #ISMECCB2025 #ISMB2025
July 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
A new #opensource R package and interactive R Shiny app for processing and visualising scRNA-seq data.

Chevreul: an R bioconductor package for exploratory analysis of full-length single cell sequencing doi.org/10.46471/gig...
Chevreul: an R bioconductor package for exploratory analysis of full-length single cell sequencing
Chevreul: an R bioconductor package for exploratory analysis of full-length single cell sequencing
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July 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Helping fill the amphibian genome gap with this draft assembly for the 12.6 Gb Golden poison frog genome

A draft genome assembly for the dart-poison frog Phyllobates terribilis doi.org/10.46471/gig...
A draft genome assembly for the dart-poison frog Phyllobates terribilis
A draft genome assembly for the dart-poison frog Phyllobates terribilis
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July 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
There is still to register for the 25th Genomic Standards Consortium meeting in Cambridge genomicsstandardsconsortium.github.io/GSC25-Cambri... #GSC25
June 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Our most recent paper is topical for #WorldOceanDay, the chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae) doi.org/10.46471/gig...
Chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae)
Chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae)
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June 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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📣🦟 The third call for data papers describing datasets on #vectors of #humandiseases is closing this week!

GBIF has collaborated with #TDR, and Gigabyte Press for a special journal issue in @gigabytejournal.bsky.social.

📌 Deadline: 6 June 2025

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June 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Very proud of our partners at @rivervalley1000.bsky.social for winning gold at #SSP2025, and for being able to say we are using what is "officially the worlds best submission system".

Submit here to test the ReView3 submission system out gigabyte-review.rivervalleytechnologies.com
June 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Another fish genome just out, this time of a bottom-dwelling flatfish species commercially fished in Europe.

Chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae) doi.org/10.46471/gig...
Chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae)
Chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae)
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May 30, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Presenting new genomes from a genus of freshwater cavefish that are potentially interesting models for studying cave adaptation and phylogenetic evolution.

Chromosome-level genome assemblies of five Sinocyclocheilus species. doi.org/10.46471/gig...
May 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We are honored to win one of the inaugural @crossref.bsky.social Metadata Excellence Awards, recognising efforts in scholarly publishing #metadata completeness and enrichment in our journal. 🎉🏆🏅http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gigascience-press-wins-crossref-metada-award/
May 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
When publishing the first benchmarking data for a new sequencing technology like CycloneSeq, it's great having @protocolsio.bsky.social to share the protocols in a transparent manner.

CycloneSEQ Library Construction and Sequencing Protocol for Isolated Bacteria. dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro...
Bring structure to your research - protocols.io
A secure platform for developing and sharing reproducible methods.
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May 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
If you missed last weeks "Author Insight on How to Publish Vectors of Human Disease Data with @gbif.org and GigaByte" webinar you can watch it here doi.org/10.52843/cas...
Cassyni | Science starts with a seminar
Seamlessly organise, run and publish academic research seminars. Get started in minutes.
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April 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM