GigaScience Journal
@gigascience.bsky.social
The #OpenScience journal from BGI & OUP publishing articles using/generating large datasets. And linked to GigaDB #opendata hosting/analysis repository.
Website: http://gigasciencejournal.com
Website: http://gigasciencejournal.com
And it’s goodbye from me. Final GigaBlog from outgoing EiC @scedmunds.bsky.social on the major changes at GigaScience Press gigasciencejournal.com/blog/and-its...
September 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
And it’s goodbye from me. Final GigaBlog from outgoing EiC @scedmunds.bsky.social on the major changes at GigaScience Press gigasciencejournal.com/blog/and-its...
Happy #PeerReviewWeek: To celebrate we have a proposal in GigaBlog: Why we need a FAIR Principles for Peer Review? gigasciencejournal.com/blog/peerrev... #PRW2025
September 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Happy #PeerReviewWeek: To celebrate we have a proposal in GigaBlog: Why we need a FAIR Principles for Peer Review? gigasciencejournal.com/blog/peerrev... #PRW2025
The Return of Asia Nature Challenge #ANC2025
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September 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The Return of Asia Nature Challenge #ANC2025
gigasciencejournal.com/blog/the-ret... #AsiaNatureChallenge #ANC2025 #CitizenScience
gigasciencejournal.com/blog/the-ret... #AsiaNatureChallenge #ANC2025 #CitizenScience
New in our T2T series, and the first published plant (and T2T) genome using CycloneSeq nanopore reads.
Telomere-to-telomere African wild rice (Oryza longistaminata) reference genome reveals segmental and structural variation doi.org/10.1093/giga...
Telomere-to-telomere African wild rice (Oryza longistaminata) reference genome reveals segmental and structural variation doi.org/10.1093/giga...
September 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
New in our T2T series, and the first published plant (and T2T) genome using CycloneSeq nanopore reads.
Telomere-to-telomere African wild rice (Oryza longistaminata) reference genome reveals segmental and structural variation doi.org/10.1093/giga...
Telomere-to-telomere African wild rice (Oryza longistaminata) reference genome reveals segmental and structural variation doi.org/10.1093/giga...
If you missed our cracking Cassyni webinar yesterday with Arthur Georges and Qiye Li talking about reptile sex-determination and CycloneSeq, the Q&A was a treat as we had many of the worlds top sex chromosome researchers join the discussion. You can watch it here cassyni.com/events/SWHRe...
August 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If you missed our cracking Cassyni webinar yesterday with Arthur Georges and Qiye Li talking about reptile sex-determination and CycloneSeq, the Q&A was a treat as we had many of the worlds top sex chromosome researchers join the discussion. You can watch it here cassyni.com/events/SWHRe...
Sign up for our webinar on Tuesday 26th August on how new long read technologies (including the first CycloneSeq vertebrate genomes) are helping elucidate the sex determination of sex-changing reptiles cassyni.com/events/SWHRe...
August 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Sign up for our webinar on Tuesday 26th August on how new long read technologies (including the first CycloneSeq vertebrate genomes) are helping elucidate the sex determination of sex-changing reptiles cassyni.com/events/SWHRe...
Double Dragon Genomes Helping Explain Sex Determination of Reptiles. Two almost complete and gapless genomes of the sex-changing central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) have just been published back-to-back in GigaScience gigasciencejournal.com/blog/double-...
August 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Double Dragon Genomes Helping Explain Sex Determination of Reptiles. Two almost complete and gapless genomes of the sex-changing central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) have just been published back-to-back in GigaScience gigasciencejournal.com/blog/double-...
A new complete tomato reference joins our T2T series.
A telomere-to-telomere gapless genome reveals SlPRR1 control of circadian rhythm and photoperiodic flowering in tomato doi.org/10.1093/giga...
A telomere-to-telomere gapless genome reveals SlPRR1 control of circadian rhythm and photoperiodic flowering in tomato doi.org/10.1093/giga...
August 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A new complete tomato reference joins our T2T series.
A telomere-to-telomere gapless genome reveals SlPRR1 control of circadian rhythm and photoperiodic flowering in tomato doi.org/10.1093/giga...
A telomere-to-telomere gapless genome reveals SlPRR1 control of circadian rhythm and photoperiodic flowering in tomato doi.org/10.1093/giga...
Help! I need curation. Our write up of Birthdays, BOSC, Beatles and Bioinformatics at ISMB2025 in Liverpool gigasciencejournal.com/blog/help-i-...
August 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Help! I need curation. Our write up of Birthdays, BOSC, Beatles and Bioinformatics at ISMB2025 in Liverpool gigasciencejournal.com/blog/help-i-...
Write up from Chris Hunter in GigaBlog on the recent Genomic Standards Consortium meeting in Cambridge #GSC2025 gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gsc25-c...
August 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Write up from Chris Hunter in GigaBlog on the recent Genomic Standards Consortium meeting in Cambridge #GSC2025 gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gsc25-c...
Great visit to @institutpasteur.bsky.social today, thanks Herve Menager for showing us around and talking bioinformatics and workflows
July 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Great visit to @institutpasteur.bsky.social today, thanks Herve Menager for showing us around and talking bioinformatics and workflows
Great to hear about Fabian’s efforts in improving Spatial Omics standards and best practices through scverse and squidpy #ISMBECCB2025
July 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Great to hear about Fabian’s efforts in improving Spatial Omics standards and best practices through scverse and squidpy #ISMBECCB2025
Final closing #ISMBECCB2025 keynote from Fabian Theis. Nice to have the meeting bookended by opening and closing talks from people that have published in GigaScience (see our MetaMap paper doi.org/10.1093/giga...) #ISMB2025
July 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Final closing #ISMBECCB2025 keynote from Fabian Theis. Nice to have the meeting bookended by opening and closing talks from people that have published in GigaScience (see our MetaMap paper doi.org/10.1093/giga...) #ISMB2025
Asked about the “human in the loop”, David Baker says despite the incredible rise of AI, there will be a role for human scientists by 2045. Phew. #ISMBECCB2025
July 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Asked about the “human in the loop”, David Baker says despite the incredible rise of AI, there will be a role for human scientists by 2045. Phew. #ISMBECCB2025
Live from Palestine, Daniel Voskergian from Al-Quds University is presenting a virtual talk in #CAMDA2025 on diabetes complication prediction from synthetic EHR data #ISMBECCB2025
July 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Live from Palestine, Daniel Voskergian from Al-Quds University is presenting a virtual talk in #CAMDA2025 on diabetes complication prediction from synthetic EHR data #ISMBECCB2025
Guy ending his talk telling the #BOSC2025 audience if they value global data infrastructure sign their open letter globalbiodata.org/open-letter-... #ISMBECCB2025
July 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Guy ending his talk telling the #BOSC2025 audience if they value global data infrastructure sign their open letter globalbiodata.org/open-letter-... #ISMBECCB2025
Thinking globally, Guy telling us the Global Biodata coalition, with 11 funders in the coalition and many more observing organisations #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025
July 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Thinking globally, Guy telling us the Global Biodata coalition, with 11 funders in the coalition and many more observing organisations #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025
Closing session at #BOSC2025, Guy Cochrane talking about the Global Biodata Infrastructure, hopefully framing things for the sustainability panel (which our EiC @scedmunds.bsky.social is participating in #ISMB2025 #ISMBECCB2025
July 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Closing session at #BOSC2025, Guy Cochrane talking about the Global Biodata Infrastructure, hopefully framing things for the sustainability panel (which our EiC @scedmunds.bsky.social is participating in #ISMB2025 #ISMBECCB2025
Phill Read presenting RO-Crate in #BOSC2025, we’ve been increasing numbers of papers with associated RO-Crates, and have a summer internship working on it at the moment #ISMBECCB2025
July 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Phill Read presenting RO-Crate in #BOSC2025, we’ve been increasing numbers of papers with associated RO-Crates, and have a summer internship working on it at the moment #ISMBECCB2025
Gavin presenting on how we’ve used the DOME guidelines, wizard and registry in our peer review of ML papers (we presented on this in BOSC last year). Calling for more journals to use this. Read the Registry paper academic.oup.com/gigascience/... #BOSC2025 #ISMB2025
July 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Gavin presenting on how we’ve used the DOME guidelines, wizard and registry in our peer review of ML papers (we presented on this in BOSC last year). Calling for more journals to use this. Read the Registry paper academic.oup.com/gigascience/... #BOSC2025 #ISMB2025
Gavin Farrell from ELIXIR presenting on the DOME Registry in the #BOSC2025 AI track #ISMBECCB2025 #ISMB2025
July 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Gavin Farrell from ELIXIR presenting on the DOME Registry in the #BOSC2025 AI track #ISMBECCB2025 #ISMB2025
Chris outlining the different AI coding agents that can be used for ontology development. Working on documenting best practices for this ai4curation.GitHub.io/aidocs #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025
July 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Chris outlining the different AI coding agents that can be used for ontology development. Working on documenting best practices for this ai4curation.GitHub.io/aidocs #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025
Nice Chris is raising the topic of AI-assisted coding. There are huge advantages of Agentic AI applications here, but there are also risks (watch this space for more on this topic) #ISMBECCB2025 #BOSC2025
July 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Nice Chris is raising the topic of AI-assisted coding. There are huge advantages of Agentic AI applications here, but there are also risks (watch this space for more on this topic) #ISMBECCB2025 #BOSC2025
Chris Mungall asking can LLMs help with ontology production? Tl;dr: nope. Superficially look impressive but prone to hallucination and has memory issues with medium to large ontologies #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025
July 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Chris Mungall asking can LLMs help with ontology production? Tl;dr: nope. Superficially look impressive but prone to hallucination and has memory issues with medium to large ontologies #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025
Today #BOSC2025 and #BOKR (formerly Bioontologies) COSI’s, Chris Mungall is doing the keynote on Open KBs in the age of generative AI #ISMBECCB2025
July 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Today #BOSC2025 and #BOKR (formerly Bioontologies) COSI’s, Chris Mungall is doing the keynote on Open KBs in the age of generative AI #ISMBECCB2025