A recent study published in Genome Biology has explored the early history of smallpox vaccination by sequencing DNA from smallpox vaccination kits dating back… Read more »
At Genome Biology we are as fascinated with plants as the next botanist and over the last couple of months we've seen some excellent plant research publish in… Read more »
At the start of the year, I was thinking about the conferences I attended last year. One highlight was Genome Informatics, which I went to in September, on… Read more »
Earlier this year Genome Biology launched a trial of transparent peer review, allowing reviewers' reports and authors' responses to them to be published… Read more »
The central dogma postulates that genes are first copied into messenger RNAs, which are then decoded into proteins with the help of transfer RNAs and ribosomal… Read more »
Last Wednesday, I attended a conference called Publishing Better Science Through Better Data at the Wellcome Collection, organized by Scientific Data. Genome… Read more »
Genome Biology's special issue looks at how chromosomes interact in space
The genome of the kiwi has just been published in Genome Biology, providing insights into this peculiar bird's physiology.
Last week, Genome Biology published an article describing Avianbase by David Burt and colleagues. This nicely rounds off the recent collection of articles from… Read more »
To mark the passing of the sun into Gemini, this month Genome Biology has published a special issue on twin studies. Not really: we just had a lot of twin… Read more »