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

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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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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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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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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...

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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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...

GigaByte Journal@gigabytejournal.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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

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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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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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#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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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

GigaScience Journal@gigascience.bsky.social · last yr.

The OG of biocuration Amos Bairoch giving us insight into what makes a good biocurator (an autistic Samurai to knowledge) in the morning keynote at #ISMBECCB2025 #ISMB2025

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

GigaScience Journal@gigascience.bsky.social · last yr.

Now up in the #ISMBECCB2025 publishing track @mmmarksman.bsky.social is telling us about the @elife.bsky.social Publish Review Curate model. Our sister @gigabytejournal.bsky.social is grateful for their @scietyhq.bsky.social infrastructure to allow linking of their reviews to preprints

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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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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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...

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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📣🦟 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

River Valley Technologies@rivervalley1000.bsky.social · last yr.

Very proud that River Valley Technologies won the #SSP2025 Gold award for Submission Systems. Thank you to our amazing team. bit.ly/3SuR6va #PeerReview #Publishing #ScienceCommunication #AcademicPublishing

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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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...

Bring structure to your research - protocols.io

A secure platform for developing and sharing reproducible methods.

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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...

Open benchmarking of CycloneSeq™ for complete bacterial genomes

Benchmark data and analysis of new CycloneSEQ using novel nanopore sequencing technology demonstrates the ability to sequence complete bacterial genomes.

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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...

Efficiently constructing complete genomes with CycloneSEQ to fill gaps in bacterial draft assemblies

Efficiently constructing complete genomes with CycloneSEQ to fill gaps in bacterial draft assemblies

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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...

GigaByte Journal@gigabytejournal.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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