Publishing Director
Laurie Goodman, PhD
Editor in Chief
Scott Edmunds, PhD
Executive Editor
Nicole Nogoy, PhD
Editor
Hans Zauner, PhD
Editor
Hongling Zhou
About the journal
GigaScience is an open access, open data, open peer-review journal focusing on ‘big data’ research from the life and biomedical sciences.
GigaScience has been selected as the 2018 Prose Awards Winner for "Innovation in Journal Publishing."
Thematic Series
Discover a variety of collection pages presenting different thematic series from GigaScience.
- Spatial Omics Methods and Applications
- Galaxy Series: Data Intensive and Reproducible Research
- A Decade of GigaScience
- Data-Driven Multicellular Systems Biology
- GigaScience Prize Track Series
- Functional Metagenomics (Meta-Func) Series
- Plant phenomics: Data integration and analyses
- Brainhack: Open tools for Brain Science
- Metabolomics: approaches, applications, and integration
- Data intensive ecology
- Optical mapping: new applications, advances and challenges
- fMRI: advances and challenges in big data analysis
- Galaxy Series: Data Intensive and Reproducible Research
- The Genomic Standards Consortium and beyond: best practice in genomics research
Closing the Gaps from Telomere-to-Telomere
While the first draft of the Human Genome was announced in June 2000 and declared complete in April 2003, it took 20 years for the publication of the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome by the Telomere to Telomere (T2T) consortium in March 2022.
With the huge interest in what can be discovered from this new level of genome sequence, and new state-of-the art of data and tools, GigaScience is pleased to announce a new thematic series focused on T2T genomics. The series will be a home for discussions, updated datasets, and new technologies and methods that are driving this new standard in genomics.
Our Guest Editors Jue Ruan and Fritz J Sedlazeck both have hands-on involvement in this rapidly moving field and have helped draw up guidelines of what can be considered for the series.The series is now open for submissions, so submit your relevant research through our online system and make a note of this series in the covering letter.
GigaResources
GigaScience has a key focus on the transparency, reproducibility and reusability of data driven research. Check out the additional integrated resources that help enable this.
- GigaDB: integrated database for research objects supporting GigaScience papers
- GigaBlog: data driven blogging from the GigaScience editors and guests
- GigaScience Jobs: Open positions and freelance work available at the journal.
- GigaGithub: GitHub repository for code associated with GigaScience papers
- GigaScience YouTube Channel: associated article videos and author and editor presentations
- Protocols.io: downloadable, citable and forkable protocols from GigaScience papers
- GigaScience on Mastodon: posts (toots) on the Mastodon decentralized social media network
- GigaScience on Bsky: updates and posts on the Bluesky social media network
Author Videos
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NPRC Member
GigaScience is now a member of the NPRC, an alliance of neuroscience journals that share manuscript reviews with other NPRC members at the author's request. The NPRC system facilitates fast-track review and publication of neuroscience research, and reduces the burden on peer reviewers.