For Peer Review Week 2025 we have a video explainer of our #OpenScience Peer Review process youtu.be/Ov_X5eYJhe4?... #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025

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

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...

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...

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) scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/21/r...

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...

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?...

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...

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...

#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...

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

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

Liverpool seems a great location for #ISMBECCB2025 #ISMB2025, with a fab first morning keynote from Amos Bairoch

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

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...

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...

There is still to register for the 25th Genomic Standards Consortium meeting in Cambridge genomicsstandardsconsortium.github.io/GSC25-Cambri... #GSC25

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...

📣🦟 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 🔗gbif.link/Vector-Pap...

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

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...

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...

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/

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...

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...

Coverage of our new benchmarking paper in the Microbiologist: Open benchmarking of CycloneSeq™ for complete bacterial genomes www.the-microbiologist.com/news/open-be...

Nicely timed for #DNAday we have the first benchmarking data for the new CycloneSEQ platform: Efficiently Constructing Complete Genomes with CycloneSEQ to Fill Gaps in Bacterial Draft Assemblies. GigaByte. 2025. doi.org/10.46471/gig... More in GigaBlog gigasciencejournal.com/blog/open-cy...

This is starting in 20 mins, join us in this free webinar to find out more about publishing (and accessing) vectors of human disease data via @gbif.org gigasciencejournal.com/blog/extende...

Want to know more about #datapublishing and our vectors of human disease series? Join our free webinar tomorrow (3pm UTC) where we'll get some author insight and guidance from the @gbif.org helpdesk cassyni.com/events/iAC1q...

#TDR GBIF and @gigascience.bsky.social have extended their third call data papers on #vectors of human disease for inclusion in a series published in #GigaByteJournal! Join the team for a #webinar to learn how to submit your work to the series. 📍22 April 17:00 - 18:00 🔗 ow.ly/AEFN50VutFC

New stony coral genome presenting the DNA methylome in tandem with a high-quality genome assembled utilizing @pacbio.bsky.social long-read HiFi sequencing. Genome assembly and annotation of Acropora pulchra from Mo’orea French Polynesia doi.org/10.46471/gig...

We've extended the call for papers for our vectors of human disease series to 6th June and also are announcing a webinar with @gbif.org on 22nd April gigasciencejournal.com/blog/extende... To find out more sign up for the webinar here cassyni.com/events/iAC1q...

Phase II of our Vectors of Human Disease series helped get fire-footed rope squirrel (Funisciurus pyrropus) data into @gbif.org doi.org/10.46471/gig... Still time to get more sponsored submissions for Phase III, which has just been extended to 6th June gigasciencejournal.com/blog/extende...

New @niema.net tool for handling ultra-large phylogenies that is orders of magnitude faster and requires orders of magnitude less memory than existing tree packages. CompactTree: a lightweight header-only C++ library and Python wrapper for ultra-large phylogenetics doi.org/10.46471/gig...

Assessing the impact of computational host DNA decontamination on downstream #metagenomics analyses, highlighting its importance in producing accurate results efficiently. Benchmarking short-read metagenomics tools for removing host contamination doi.org/10.1093/giga...

📣🦟 The third call for data papers is closing 4 April📌 GBIF has collaborated with TDR and @gigascience.bsky.social for a special journal issue focused on publishing new datasets that present biodiversity data on vectors of #humandiseases. 🔗ow.ly/kUFC50UxNUk

GBIF colabora con tdr.who.int y la revista @gigascience.bsky.social para lanzar una edición especial centrada en la publicación de nuevos conjuntos de datos que presenten información sobre #biodiversidad en #vectores de #enfermedadeshumanas

New Technical Release presenting downloadable and easier-to-install versions of CELLxGENE; the #opensource popular tool to find, download, and visually explore single-cell biology datasets Portable-CELLxGENE: standalone executables of CELLxGENE for easy installation doi.org/10.46471/gig...

Applications are open for the TDR and @gbif.org supported training on "Data Sharing on Vectors to Prevent and Control Vector-Borne Disease" at the WAASuN meeting on 23rd/24th June waasun.org/events/train...

New reference genome for this endangered and endemic deer species found in the rainforests of the Visayan Islands in the Philippines. Draft genome of the endangered visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi), a Philippine endemic species doi.org/10.46471/gig...

Presenting high-quality genomes of two popular grape varieties used in red wine blends to provide additional resources for their use in breeding. The assembly and annotation of two teinturier grapevine varieties, Dakapo and Rubired doi.org/10.46471/gig...

CitSciAsia Talk Presents... Innovative #CitizenScience Tools & Apps: Kapta & Aurora. Join our webinar on 25th Feb (5.30pm HK UTC+8) covering platforms for mapping and energy consumption with Fabien Moustard and Martin Brocklehurst Zoom york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9656285937... ID: 96562859376 PW: 141303

SqueezeCall: nanopore basecalling using a Squeezeformer network. #Nanopore #Basecalling #LongRead #Sequencing #Bioinformatics @nanoporetech.com @gigabytejournal.bsky.social gigabytejournal.com/articles/148

Biodepot Launcher: an app to install, manage and launch bioinformatics workflows. #Bioinformatics #Workflows @gigabytejournal.bsky.social 🧬 🖥️ gigabytejournal.com/articles/146

Great to visit Kasetsart Uni Dept of Entomology today and see a talk from Prof Ju Hyeon Kim (SNU) about Medical Entomology and Vector Research in Korea. Giving a shoutout to TDR, was a very topical talk in light of our vectors of human disease series call gigasciencejournal.com/blog/round-t...

A new #opensource @nanoporetech.com basecaller using Temporal U-Net structures. SqueezeCall: nanopore basecalling using a Squeezeformer network doi.org/10.46471/gig...

Presenting our first examples of publishing peer-reviewed protocol papers with @protocolsio.bsky.social gigasciencejournal.com/blog/publish... See our first protocol with a peer-reviewed method badge dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro... And the paper embedding the protocol here doi.org/10.46471/gig...

Happy New Year of the Snake Genomes doi.org/10.46471/GIG...

Do you have data on vectors of human disease, as we currently have WHO-sponsored call in our sister @gigabytejournal.bsky.social? gigasciencejournal.com/blog/round-t... The deadline is 4th April, and you can see more in this video youtu.be/HvewWYS95Sg?...

A new desktop application that facilitates installation, management and deployment of #bioinformatics workflows using the Biodepot-workflow-builder (Bwb) Biodepot Launcher: an app to install, manage and launch bioinformatics workflows doi.org/10.46471/gig...