Ginkgo genome fills an evolutionary hole
New in GigaScience is an article that presents the genome sequence of Ginkgo biloba, the oldest extant tree species. The research was carried out by a team of… Read more »
Scott Edmunds
Executive Editor of GigaScience, and data nerd working at the BGI and based in Hong Kong. Open Knowledge Open Science Ambassador and Executive Committee member for Open Data Hong Kong.
Latest posts by Scott Edmunds (see all)
- Ginkgo genome fills an evolutionary hole - 25th November 2016
- Personal Genomics Enters a New Phase - 11th October 2016
- Guest posting: Conda as a new standard for Galaxy tool dependencies - 20th September 2016
Personal Genomics Enters a New Phase
Individual human genomes are diploid in nature, with half of the homologous chromosomes derived from each parent. The context in which variations occur on each… Read more »
Guest posting: Conda as a new standard for Galaxy tool dependencies
The Galaxy community is one that shares similar reproducibility goals with GigaScience, having a computational platform that allows users to share workflows,… Read more »
Of big fish and small genomes. Ocean sunfish shines.
The genome of the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), the world’s largest bony fish, has been just been published in GigaScience by researchers at A*STAR, Singapore,… Read more »
Guest posting: Building a PhenoMeNal metabolomics e-infrastructure
David Johnson and the PhenoMeNal consortium have a guest posting on their efforts in building an open, community-supported, e-infrastructure for medical… Read more »
#ISMB16: A Disney Coming of Age Tale.
At Disney World infancy ends at 3, or at least that is the age children have to start purchasing tickets. It seemed appropriate to celebrate our 4th birthday… Read more »
Open bioinformatics in the house of the mouse.
The 2016 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference has just finished here at Disney World Orlando, and here is the write up of the meeting, with discussion on the… Read more »
The lowest common denominator: marketing science with jIF
Our Editor in Chief Laurie Goodman gives her thoughts on the journal impact factor (jIF), and how we need to move beyond shallow, untransparent, gameable,… Read more »
Decoding The Tree of Life: Olive joins the Genome Club
Teams of scientists from Spain have published the first complete genome of the olive tree. The specimen sequenced is of the Spanish Farga variety, and is over… Read more »
Of Parasites & Protocols, Part 3. Author Q&A with Tony Papenfuss
Following our announcement this month of a new collaboration and integration with protocols.io, we’ve gone into more detail on the first two papers that have… Read more »