Published today in GigaScience is a new algorithm connecting social and biological networks to identify key proteins in Human Health. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a machine-learning algorithm that could enhance our understanding of human biology and disease.

Regular readers will have heard the news that TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a third call for authors to submit Data Release papers on vectors of human disease for inclusion in a thematic series published in GigaByte Journal.

GigaScience Press is pleased to announce an upcoming Cassyni webinar on algorithm based detection of diseases using AI-based approaches taken from social media to protein networks.

Mary Ann Tuli and Bastien Molcrette provide a write up of IDCC25 at The Hague. This deliberately provocative phrase, uttered by a conference participant, sums up the challenge of preserving scientific data: to make useful information available to those, present and future, who are best placed to use it to its full potential.

A new genomic analysis of the blue peafowl and its endangered green sister species provides insights into unwanted hybridization between these closely related birds, which may pose a risk to conservation efforts. The authors of a new GigaScience article also show

Today is World Pangolin Day!  To celebrate the occasion GigaScience presents a new article, adding two chromosome-scale genome sequences and in-depth genomic analyses. Pangolins are cute, but the reason why it’s important to draw regular attention to these scaly mammals is more sober: Pangolins are the most trafficked wild mammals in the world, with more than 900,000 poached in the past two decades.

This week we are pleased to announce and highlight new updated additions to our long-running collaboration with protocols.io, linked to our first paper with a peer-reviewed protocol featuring a “Peer-reviewed method” badge on protocols.io. Alongside the addition of new functionality in protocols.io to submit protocols as method papers to GigaByte . The new GigaByte paper presents a new method expanding the alphabet and

The 32nd Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) Conference 2025 was a whirlwind of fascinating talks and innovative research! As in previous years (see previous blog posts here & here), the event spanned 5 complete days, this time the organisers reporting 2349 registered attendees from 64 countries. The top 5 represented countries were (highest number of participants first); USA, Canada, UK, Germany and China.

This week we published a new, high-quality genome sequence of one of Australia’s most iconic animals, the short beaked echidna. The almost gapless genome sequence of this egg-laying mammal helps researchers to track genomic reshuffling events that gave rise to a perplexing  sex determination system. At first glance they may be mistaken for a weird-looking hedgehog.

Innovation + Integration = Cassyni X Sciety As an Open Science publisher, we’ve written extensively on our aims to think and act wider to better address the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation.

TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases hosted at the World Health Organization (WHO), GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a third call for authors to submit Data Release papers on vectors of human disease for inclusion in a thematic series published in GigaByte Journal.