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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · 25d

For Peer Review Week 2025 we have a video explainer of our #OpenScience Peer Review process youtu.be/Ov_X5eYJhe4?... #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025

Open Science Peer Review with GigaByte

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News Medical @newsmedical.bsky.social · 25d

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

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 · 29d

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...

Distribution of flies of medical importance in Thailand: a dataset

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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · Sep 2

If you want to learn more on how to publish multilingual research with GigaByte check out this explainer video youtu.be/JkeFfxmwd30?...

How to Publish Multilingual Papers with GigaByte

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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · Sep 2

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 · Sep 2

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...

Triatomines outside the Americas: a comprehensive dataset for the global surveillance of Chagas disease vectors

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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · Aug 21

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...

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 · Aug 20

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 · Aug 17

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?...

How to Publish Interactive Figures with GigaByte

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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · Aug 15

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...

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 · Aug 7

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...

Whole genome sequencing and assembly of the house sparrow, Passer domesticus

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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · Aug 4

#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...

Galaxy QCxMS for straightforward semi-empirical quantum mechanical EI-MS prediction

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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · Jul 22

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 · Jul 21

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 · Jul 21

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 · Jul 21

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

GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · Jul 3

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...

Chevreul: an R bioconductor package for exploratory analysis of full-length single cell sequencing

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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · Jul 1

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...

A draft genome assembly for the dart-poison frog Phyllobates terribilis

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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · Jul 1

Especially now there are journals that can use (and not flatten) the interactive figures gigasciencejournal.com/blog/frictio...

Improvements for Man and Machine in Scientific Publishing - GigaBlog

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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · Jun 16

There is still to register for the 25th Genomic Standards Consortium meeting in Cambridge genomicsstandardsconsortium.github.io/GSC25-Cambri... #GSC25

GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · Jun 8

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...

Chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae)

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GBIF @gbif.org · Jun 2

📣🦟 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 · Jun 1

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 · May 30

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...

Chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae)

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GigaByte Journal @gigabytejournal.bsky.social · May 14

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...