A guest post from our summer data science intern Raniere Silva from Hong Kong City Uiniversity on his work on Frictionless Data and Interactive Visualisation
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A guest post from our summer data science intern Raniere Silva from Hong Kong City Uiniversity on his work on Frictionless Data and Interactive Visualisation
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The h-index is a metric that was invented to summarise the publication output and impact of researchers. In a new GigaScience article, authors from the University of New South Wales (Australia) adopt the controversial metric for a completely different purpose: to explore systematic differences in research interest ( taxonomic bias ), using mammals as an example.
Write-up of GigaScience's 10th birthday at ISMB2022 in Wisconsin, birthday series of papers, and it's efforts to map to the UNESCO Open Science Recommendations
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GigaScience Press is pleased to announce GigaByte journal has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2022 ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing.
The meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), International Partner – BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library) and National Partner – NatSCA (Natural Sciences Collections Association) took place in Edinburgh from June 5 th -10 th 2022.
New GigaByte series of vector-borne diseases data papers just out, including mosquitoes, sandflies, ticks, and kissing bugs, supported by GBIF and the WHO
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Citizen Scientists share and publish Mosquito Alert data as part of our GigaByte (& GBIF & TDR supported) series on vector-borne diseases.
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Author Q&A with Julien Wist talking about his interactive coffee dataset just published in GigaByte that features a NMRium browser.
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Write-up of the The 12th international meeting on Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI) conference
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High-resolution images of the head of the blind salamander Proteus anguinus reveal adaptations for life in the dark. The proteus, also called the “olm”, is a strange beast – locals in the 1600s actually believed it was a baby dragon. In fact a blind salamander, it is snake-like in appearance, colorless, and can live up to 100 years.
A team led by scientists from Monash University have completed a major milestone towards achieving the rescue of the critically endangered helmeted honeyeater.