@GigaScience

The #OpenScience journal from BGI & OUP publishing articles using/generating large datasets. And linked to @Giga_DB #opendata hosting/analysis repository

Hong Kong
Joined October 2010
We are now at the STOC Plant 2026 Conference (sto-consortium.org/stocplant…), and we warmly invite you to stop by and chat with our editors.
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A new study published in @GigaScience, led by the @LozuponeLab at @CUAnschutz, introduces KG-Microbe: a knowledge graph (KG) framework that harmonizes and standardizes microbial data to support microbiome research. Read the study and explore KG-Microbe ➡️ cudbmi.info/kg-microbe-4
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🦀 xgt is officially published in @GigaScience! Query the Genome Taxonomy Database from your terminal: search, genome cards, taxon lineages & cross-release taxonomic diff. 📄 doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/… | 🔗 github.com/Ebedthan/xgt | v1.2.0 dropping soon with local caching 🗄️ #Rust
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If you'd like to hear an interview about MicroFinder and birds with @sangerinstitute first author Dr Tom Mathers, head to the @ZSLScience podcast episode #50 'mapping nature's code' - the team discusses birds, sampling, and genomes! It's a great listen ⤵️ open.spotify.com/show/6oXspu…
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Scotland just unlocked a massive brain imaging resource for AI research: 417k MRI + 846k CT head scans, linked EHRs & 1.8M reports from 830k+ patients – real-world clinical data, ready for secure analysis. doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/…
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De novo mutation calling just got a major upgrade. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute present TrioDNM + VRFS: fewer false positives at the same sensitivity. doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/…
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SCSEQ is a new zero-code web platform for single-cell RNA-seq analysis, published in #GigaScience. doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/…
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New tool alert! MicroFinder, just published in GigaScience, helps assemble notoriously tricky bird genomes—faster & more accurately than ever before. doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/…; sanger.ac.uk/news_item/new-t…
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Making machine learning research more transparent and reproducible: GigaScience Press integrates DOME standards into peer review and publishing workflows: doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-001.
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Giant chromosomes of a tiny plant - the complete telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the simple thalloid liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia (Jungermanniopsida, Marchantiophyta): doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/…
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Dear Authors, Readers, Editorial Board Members and Colleagues in the Academic Community, we are delighted to announce that Dr. Xun Xu has officially been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of GigaScience. See the announcement here: gigasciencejournal.com/blog/…
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And it’s goodbye from me. Final GigaBlog from outgoing EiC @SCEdmunds on the major changes at GigaScience Press gigasciencejournal.com/blog/…
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Happy #PeerReviewWeek: To celebrate we have a proposal in GigaBlog: Why we need a FAIR Principles for Peer Review? gigasciencejournal.com/blog/… #PRW2025
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A novel deep learning model for accurate and rapid prediction of IAV subtypes and host source WaveSeekerNet: accurate prediction of influenza A virus subtypes and host source using attention-based deep learning doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/…
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Supporting biodiversity research in the world's biggest continent. The Return of Asia Nature Challenge #ANC2025 gigasciencejournal.com/blog/… #AsiaNatureChallenge #CitizenScience
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A new #opensource interpretable genomic selection model designed for phenotype prediction. DeepAnnotation: A novel interpretable deep learning–based genomic selection model that integrates comprehensive functional annotations doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/…
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Presenting new avenues for white matter abnormality-related classification of heterogeneous MRI data HeteroMRI: Robust white matter abnormality classification across multi-scanner MRI data doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/…
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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/gigascience/…
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Presenting metagenomic data from the analysis of microbial communities in mangrove sediments across Southeast China A holistic genome dataset of bacteria and archaea of mangrove sediments doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/…
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