GigaScience Journal

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The #OpenScience journal from BGI & OUP publishing articles using/generating large datasets. And linked to GigaDB #opendata hosting/analysis repository.
GigaScience Homepagehttp://www.gigasciencejournal.com
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Watch this new explainer video from
Eugenie (Charley) Yen
on her labs work on on conservation #genomics and #epigenomics of endangered Loggerhead Turtles

https://youtu.be/3C4D43mEBBk?si=odZtPMBtM3UzkElU

Read the research here:

https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaf054

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 archived here (and ask it questions using Cassyni's clever AI tech) https://cassyni.com/events/SWHReTL1j8YPEvxnLsyKYq

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 to help tackle the mystery of reptile sex determination. Alongside a new gapless rice genome showcasing new MGI CycloneSeq nanopore sequencing technologies ability to complete animal and plant genomes.
https://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/double-dragon-genomes-helping-explain-sex-determination-of-reptiles/

Help! I need curation. Our write up of Birthdays, BOSC, Beatles and Bioinformatics at ISMB2025 in Liverpool https://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/help-i-need-curation-ismb-meets-the-beatles/

#ISMBECCB2025 #BOSC2025

Write up from Chris Hunter in GigaBlog on the recent Genomic Standards Consortium meeting in Cambridge #GSC2025

https://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gsc25-celebrating-20-years-of-genomic-standards-and-30-years-of-genome-sequences/

See also our GSC series of papers https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/pages/genomic_standards_consortium

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Happy 13th Birthday to @GigaScience - here at their party at #ISMBECCB2025 🎉 with @scedmunds et al
GigaPanda is enjoying the fab Liverpool vibes, and is getting ready for #ISMBECCB2025 kicking off today