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Dear Authors, Readers, Editorial Board Members and Colleagues in the Academic Community, We are delighted to announce that Dr. Xun Xu has officially been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of GigaScience. As a distinguished expert in the fields of bioinformatics and genomics, Dr. Xu brings extensive research experience and has long been committed to promoting technological innovation […]

Today is last day for the Hong Kong team including Nicole Nogoy, Chris Hunter, Peter Li, Mary Ann Tulli, Bastien Molcrette and Ken Cho. As outgoing Editor in Chief, I thought I would give my thoughts and perspective on the last 15 years at the Open Science coalface.

For Peer Review Week 2025 we are proposing the FAIR principles for scientific peer review, using these to make peer review more scalable, efficient and also better equipped for the increasing use of AI in publishing.

GigaScience Press is again helping CitizenScience.Asia mobilise Citizen Scientists Across Asia for a groundbreaking biodiversity initiative from October 3 to 12 2025.

Two almost complete and gapless genomes of the sex-changing central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) are published today in GigaScience to help tackle the mystery of reptile sex determination. Read more here.

This year ISMB2025 and BOSC was in Liverpool, and we embraced the location with our biggest birthday ever (alongside some Beatles themed adventures). Read more in the conference write-up.

The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) recently convened for the GSC25 meeting in Cambridge and here is a write-up by Chris Hunter.

GigaScience Press’ has been awarded one of the first CrossRef MetaData Awards, highlighting the Press as a leader in providing essential information to facilitate discovery, identification, and details of online research articles. This week GigaScience Press has been announced as a winner at the inaugural Crossref Metadata Awards, recognising efforts in scholarly publishing metadata completeness […]

Following our previous DNA Day 2025 post covering where we are in the T2T (telomere-to-telomer) genomes era, we have a second expert Q&A covering the topic, this time from Kateryna Makova on the challenges (and opportunities) of  assembly of T2T sex chromosomes. Lets Talk about Sex Chromosomes Kateryna Makova is the Verne M. Willaman Chair […]

Today is International DNA Day, commemorating the day in 1953 when Crick, Watson, Wilkins and Franklin published their papers on the structure of DNA. Fifty years later, with the declaration that the human genome project was close to completion the US Senate and the House of Representatives declared that 25th April 2003 would be the […]