GigaScience aims to revolutionize data dissemination, organization, understanding, and use. An online open-access open-data journal, we publish 'big-data' studies from the entire spectrum of life and biomedical sciences. To achieve our goals, the journal has a novel publication format: one that links standard manuscript publication with an extensive database that hosts all associated data and provides data analysis tools and cloud-computing resources.
Our scope covers not just 'omic' type data and the fields of high-throughput biology currently serviced by large public repositories, but also the growing range of more difficult-to-access data, such as imaging, neuroscience, ecology, cohort data, systems biology and other new types of large-scale sharable data.
Now accepting submissions
GigaScience is accepting submissions; please use the online submission system to submit your manuscript. Please note that authors are not currently required to pay for publication of articles during the journal's first year of publication; this is due to the generous support of the BGI. For all enquires about the journal, please contact: editorial@gigasciencejournal.com.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
- Dr Laurie Goodman, BGI, USA
Editor
- Dr Scott Edmunds, BGI, China
Assistant Editor
- Dr Alexandra Basford, BGI, China
Editorial Board
- Prof Stephan Beck, University College London, UK
- Dr Alvis Brazma, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
- Prof Ann-Shyn Chiang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
- Dr Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
- Dr Paul Flicek, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
- Prof Takashi Gojobori, National Institute of Genetics, CIB & DDBJ, Japan
- Prof Lennart Hammarström, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Dr Robert Hanner, University of Guelph, Canada
- Dr Yoshihide Hayashizaki, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan
- Dr Henning Hermjakob, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
- Dr Paul Horton, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
- Dr Wolfgang Huber, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
- Prof Gary King, Harvard University, USA
- Dr Tin-Lap Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Dr Donald Moerman, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Dr Karen Nelson, J. Craig Venter Institute, USA
- Dr Stephen J O'Brien, St. Petersburg University, Russia
- Dr B F Francis Ouellette, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada
- Dr Hanchuan Peng, Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI, USA
- Prof Pavel A Pevzner, University of California, San Diego, USA
- Dr Russell Poldrack, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Dr Ming Qi, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
- Dr Susanna-Assunta Sansone, University of Oxford, UK
- Dr Michael Schatz, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
- Dr David Schwartz, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
- Prof Fritz Sommer, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Prof Lincoln Stein, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada
- Dr Sumio Sugano, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Dr Jason Swedlow, University of Dundee, UK
- Dr Thomas Wachtler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
- Prof Jun Wang, BGI, China
- Dr Alistair Young, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Dr Zang Yu-Feng, Hangzhou Normal University, China
- Dr Marie Zins, Versailles St Quentin University, France
GigaScience is a new integrated database and journal co-published in collaboration between BGI Shenzhen and BioMed Central, to meet the needs of a new generation of biological and biomedical research as it enters the era of "big-data." BGI (formerly known as Beijing Genomics Institute) was founded in 1999 and has since become the largest genomic organization in the world and has a proven track record of innovative, high profile research.
To achieve its goals, GigaScience has developed a novel publishing format that integrates manuscript publication with a database that will provide DOI assignment to every dataset. Supporting the open-data movement, we require that all supporting data and source code be publically available in a suitable public repository and/or under a public domain CC0 license in the BGI GigaScience database. Using the BGI cloud as a test environment, we also consider open-source software tools/methods for the analysis or handling of large-scale data. When submitting a manuscript, please contact us if you have datasets or cloud applications you would like us to host. To maximize data usability submitters are encouraged to follow best practice for metadata reporting and are given the opportunity to submit in ISA-Tab format.
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