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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
For Peer Review Week 2025 we have a video explainer of our #OpenScience Peer Review process youtu.be/Ov_X5eYJhe4?... #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025
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Open Science Peer Review with GigaByte
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News Medical @newsmedical.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A groundbreaking dataset charts the distribution of kissing bug species across three continents, providing public health officials with the insights needed to prevent new Chagas disease outbreaks. www.news-medical.net/news/2025091... @gigabytejournal.bsky.social
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Scientists map kissing bugs beyond the Americas to assess Chagas threat
Researchers compiled the first comprehensive dataset of 16 non-American triatomine bug species, mapping 396 verified records across Africa, Asia, and Oceania. This resource supports global Chagas dise...
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A new paper in our @gbif.org / TDR supported Vectors of Human Disease series presenting biting and non-biting fly species from Southeast Asia Distribution of flies of medical importance in Thailand: a dataset doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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Distribution of flies of medical importance in Thailand: a dataset
Distribution of flies of medical importance in Thailand: a dataset
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
If you want to learn more on how to publish multilingual research with GigaByte check out this explainer video youtu.be/JkeFfxmwd30?...
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How to Publish Multilingual Papers with GigaByte
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This paper showcases our multilingual functionality, with a Spanish language version on our website, PMC and in SciELO preprints doi.org/10.1590/SciE...
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
New in our Vectors of Human Disease series shares extremely important data ltracking kissing bug spread into Africa, Asia, and Oceania Triatomines outside the Americas: a comprehensive dataset for the global surveillance of Chagas disease vectors doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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Triatomines outside the Americas: a comprehensive dataset for the global surveillance of Chagas disease vectors
Triatomines outside the Americas: a comprehensive dataset for the global surveillance of Chagas disease vectors
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
We for one welcome our new AI overlords. As all our content is presented in the most structured and metadata rich manner. With a text-mining portal for bulk use. And all papers linked to the supporting data and code( via DOIs where possible) scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/21/r...
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Rise of the Machine Readers: What They Really Want to Read - The Scholarly Kitchen
As AI becomes a major consumer of research, scholarly publishing must evolve: from PDFs for people to structured, high-quality data for machines.
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Appropriate it is #WorldMosquitoDay when the latest phase of our Vectors of Human Disease papers are starting to come out. See the series page and watch this space for some more really important mosquito observation datasets coming out soon doi.org/10.46471/GIG...
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
How to Publish Interactive Figures with GigaByte. Here we have an explainer video on how publishing with us can bring your papers to life youtu.be/sukbt_TR6cM?...
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
1st paper from Phase III of our Vectors of Human Disease series is out, and its sharing #citizenscience data schistosome hosts data Snail intermediate host occurrence recorded by citizen scientists in rural Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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Snail intermediate host occurrence recorded by citizen scientists in rural Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Snail intermediate host occurrence recorded by citizen scientists in rural Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
A new sequenced and annotated bird genome in GigaByte. Whole genome sequencing and assembly of the house sparrow, Passer domesticus doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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Whole genome sequencing and assembly of the house sparrow, Passer domesticus
Whole genome sequencing and assembly of the house sparrow, Passer domesticus
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
#Usegalaxy workflows for quantum chemistry, allowing non-HPC users to make electron ionization mass spectra predictions more easily. Galaxy QCxMS for straightforward semi-empirical quantum mechanical EI-MS prediction doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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Galaxy QCxMS for straightforward semi-empirical quantum mechanical EI-MS prediction
Galaxy QCxMS for straightforward semi-empirical quantum mechanical EI-MS prediction
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Having >2200 attendees at #ISMBECCB2025 has made the poster sessions pretty full on. Great there are long coffee sessions but can barely get through all of the aisles #ISMB2025
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In the Analytic tools and pipelines track of #BOSC2025, interesting to see @nextflow.io in 2024 overtook #usegalaxy to become the most widely used workflow manager in bioinformatics #ISMB2025 #ISMBECCB2025
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Liverpool seems a great location for #ISMBECCB2025 #ISMB2025, with a fab first morning keynote from Amos Bairoch
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Read more in this posting on how we are reviewing preprints and linking reviews and editor’s assessment to each associated preprint gigasciencejournal.com/blog/peer-re... #ISMECCB2025 #ISMB2025
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Peer Review Week 2023: GigaByte joins the ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ Revolution using Sciety - GigaBlog
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
A new #opensource R package and interactive R Shiny app for processing and visualising scRNA-seq data. Chevreul: an R bioconductor package for exploratory analysis of full-length single cell sequencing doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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Chevreul: an R bioconductor package for exploratory analysis of full-length single cell sequencing
Chevreul: an R bioconductor package for exploratory analysis of full-length single cell sequencing
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Helping fill the amphibian genome gap with this draft assembly for the 12.6 Gb Golden poison frog genome A draft genome assembly for the dart-poison frog Phyllobates terribilis doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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A draft genome assembly for the dart-poison frog Phyllobates terribilis
A draft genome assembly for the dart-poison frog Phyllobates terribilis
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Especially now there are journals that can use (and not flatten) the interactive figures gigasciencejournal.com/blog/frictio...
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Improvements for Man and Machine in Scientific Publishing - GigaBlog
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
There is still to register for the 25th Genomic Standards Consortium meeting in Cambridge genomicsstandardsconsortium.github.io/GSC25-Cambri... #GSC25
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Our most recent paper is topical for #WorldOceanDay, the chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae) doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae)
Chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae)
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GBIF @gbif.org · 02/06/2025
📣🦟 The third call for data papers describing datasets on #vectors of #humandiseases is closing this week! GBIF has collaborated with #TDR, and Gigabyte Press for a special journal issue in @gigabytejournal.bsky.social. 📌 Deadline: 6 June 2025 🔗gbif.link/Vector-Pap...
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Very proud of our partners at @rivervalley1000.bsky.social for winning gold at #SSP2025, and for being able to say we are using what is "officially the worlds best submission system". Submit here to test the ReView3 submission system out gigabyte-review.rivervalleytechnologies.com
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Another fish genome just out, this time of a bottom-dwelling flatfish species commercially fished in Europe. Chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae) doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae)
Chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae)
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Presenting new genomes from a genus of freshwater cavefish that are potentially interesting models for studying cave adaptation and phylogenetic evolution. Chromosome-level genome assemblies of five Sinocyclocheilus species. doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Thanks to these efforts we were selected from the nearly 150,000 journals from 22,000 members using @crossref.bsky.social infrastructure for having the highest #metadata completeness (82%) in the small publishers category. You can also read more in their blog www.crossref.org/blog/crossre...
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Huge thanks to our partners @rivervalley1000.bsky.social for their state-of-the-art publishing platform and the responsiveness of their team in addressing our exacting metadata standards. Their ReView platform has also just won an EPIC award rivervalley.io/news/river-v...
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We are honored to win one of the inaugural @crossref.bsky.social Metadata Excellence Awards, recognising efforts in scholarly publishing #metadata completeness and enrichment in our journal. 🎉🏆🏅http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gigascience-press-wins-crossref-metada-award/
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
When publishing the first benchmarking data for a new sequencing technology like CycloneSeq, it's great having @protocolsio.bsky.social to share the protocols in a transparent manner. CycloneSEQ Library Construction and Sequencing Protocol for Isolated Bacteria. dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro...
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Bring structure to your research - protocols.io
A secure platform for developing and sharing reproducible methods.
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If you missed last weeks "Author Insight on How to Publish Vectors of Human Disease Data with @gbif.org and GigaByte" webinar you can watch it here doi.org/10.52843/cas...
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Cassyni | Science starts with a seminar
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Its still based on and presenting the same data in the preprint (see doi.org/10.5524/102694). But in the text they are now clearer on the limitations and accuracy (and in theory the basecalling should continue to improve over time).
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GigaDB Dataset - DOI 10.5524/102694 - Supporting data for "Efficiently Constructing Complete Genomes with CycloneSEQ to Fill Gaps in Bacte ...
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Coverage of our new benchmarking paper in the Microbiologist: Open benchmarking of CycloneSeq™ for complete bacterial genomes www.the-microbiologist.com/news/open-be...
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Open benchmarking of CycloneSeq™ for complete bacterial genomes
Benchmark data and analysis of new CycloneSEQ using novel nanopore sequencing technology demonstrates the ability to sequence complete bacterial genomes.
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
FYI The peer reviewed final version of the paper is out now: doi.org/10.46471/gig... With more in GigaBlog on how it was openly reviewed and benchmarked: gigasciencejournal.com/blog/open-cy...
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Open CycloneSeq Benchmarking For Complete Bacterial Genomes - GigaBlog
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Nicely timed for #DNAday we have the first benchmarking data for the new CycloneSEQ platform: Efficiently Constructing Complete Genomes with CycloneSEQ to Fill Gaps in Bacterial Draft Assemblies. GigaByte. 2025. doi.org/10.46471/gig... More in GigaBlog gigasciencejournal.com/blog/open-cy...
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Efficiently constructing complete genomes with CycloneSEQ to fill gaps in bacterial draft assemblies
Efficiently constructing complete genomes with CycloneSEQ to fill gaps in bacterial draft assemblies
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is starting in 20 mins, join us in this free webinar to find out more about publishing (and accessing) vectors of human disease data via @gbif.org gigasciencejournal.com/blog/extende...
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Extended call and webinar for GigaByte’s vectors of human disease series - GigaBlog
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Want to know more about #datapublishing and our vectors of human disease series? Join our free webinar tomorrow (3pm UTC) where we'll get some author insight and guidance from the @gbif.org helpdesk cassyni.com/events/iAC1q...
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GBIF @gbif.org · 09/04/2025
#TDR GBIF and @gigascience.bsky.social have extended their third call data papers on #vectors of human disease for inclusion in a series published in #GigaByteJournal! Join the team for a #webinar to learn how to submit your work to the series. 📍22 April 17:00 - 18:00 🔗 ow.ly/AEFN50VutFC
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
New stony coral genome presenting the DNA methylome in tandem with a high-quality genome assembled utilizing @pacbio.bsky.social long-read HiFi sequencing. Genome assembly and annotation of Acropora pulchra from Mo’orea French Polynesia doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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Genome assembly and annotation of Acropora pulchra from Mo’orea French Polynesia
Genome assembly and annotation of Acropora pulchra from Mo’orea French Polynesia
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We've extended the call for papers for our vectors of human disease series to 6th June and also are announcing a webinar with @gbif.org on 22nd April gigasciencejournal.com/blog/extende... To find out more sign up for the webinar here cassyni.com/events/iAC1q...
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Phase II of our Vectors of Human Disease series helped get fire-footed rope squirrel (Funisciurus pyrropus) data into @gbif.org doi.org/10.46471/gig... Still time to get more sponsored submissions for Phase III, which has just been extended to 6th June gigasciencejournal.com/blog/extende...
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Extended call and webinar for GigaByte’s vectors of human disease series - GigaBlog
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New @niema.net tool for handling ultra-large phylogenies that is orders of magnitude faster and requires orders of magnitude less memory than existing tree packages. CompactTree: a lightweight header-only C++ library and Python wrapper for ultra-large phylogenetics doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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CompactTree: a lightweight header-only C++ library and Python wrapper for ultra-large phylogenetics
CompactTree: a lightweight header-only C++ library and Python wrapper for ultra-large phylogenetics
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Assessing the impact of computational host DNA decontamination on downstream #metagenomics analyses, highlighting its importance in producing accurate results efficiently. Benchmarking short-read metagenomics tools for removing host contamination doi.org/10.1093/giga...
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Benchmarking short-read metagenomics tools for removing host contamination
AbstractBackground. The rapid evolution of metagenomic sequencing technology offers remarkable opportunities to explore the intricate roles of microbiome i
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GBIF @gbif.org · 21/03/2025
📣🦟 The third call for data papers is closing 4 April📌 GBIF has collaborated with TDR and @gigascience.bsky.social for a special journal issue focused on publishing new datasets that present biodiversity data on vectors of #humandiseases. 🔗ow.ly/kUFC50UxNUk
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GBIF España/Spain @gbif.es · 21/03/2025
GBIF colabora con tdr.who.int y la revista @gigascience.bsky.social para lanzar una edición especial centrada en la publicación de nuevos conjuntos de datos que presenten información sobre #biodiversidad en #vectores de #enfermedadeshumanas
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TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, is a global programme of scientific collaboration that helps facilitate, support and influence efforts to combat diseases of ...
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
New Technical Release presenting downloadable and easier-to-install versions of CELLxGENE; the #opensource popular tool to find, download, and visually explore single-cell biology datasets Portable-CELLxGENE: standalone executables of CELLxGENE for easy installation doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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Portable-CELLxGENE: standalone executables of CELLxGENE for easy installation
Portable-CELLxGENE: standalone executables of CELLxGENE for easy installation
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
See more on this handy video on how to publish vectors of human disease data with GigaByte youtu.be/HvewWYS95Sg?...
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How to Publish Vectors of Human Disease Data with GigaByte
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
You'll get hands on training on how to submit your data to @gbif.org and write data papers eligible for our sponsored vectors of human disease search gigasciencejournal.com/blog/round-t...
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Applications are open for the TDR and @gbif.org supported training on "Data Sharing on Vectors to Prevent and Control Vector-Borne Disease" at the WAASuN meeting on 23rd/24th June waasun.org/events/train...
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New reference genome for this endangered and endemic deer species found in the rainforests of the Visayan Islands in the Philippines. Draft genome of the endangered visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi), a Philippine endemic species doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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Draft genome of the endangered visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi), a Philippine endemic species
Draft genome of the endangered visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi), a Philippine endemic species
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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Presenting high-quality genomes of two popular grape varieties used in red wine blends to provide additional resources for their use in breeding. The assembly and annotation of two teinturier grapevine varieties, Dakapo and Rubired doi.org/10.46471/gig...
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The assembly and annotation of two teinturier grapevine varieties, Dakapo and Rubired
The assembly and annotation of two teinturier grapevine varieties, Dakapo and Rubired
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